nine o'clock
At eight o'clock in the morning he drank tea , read the newspapers , and recounted the news to the mother . He repeated the speeches of the merchants in the Douma without malice , and clearly depicted the life in the city . Listening to him the mother saw with transparent clearness the mechanism of this life pitilessly grinding the people in the millstones of money . At nine o'clock he went off to the office . She tidied the rooms , prepared dinner , washed herself , put on a clean dress , and then sat in her room to examine the pictures and the books . She had already learned to read , but the effort of reading quickly exhausted her ; and she ceased to understand the meaning of the words . But the pictures were a constant astonishment to her .