about two o’clock
Lebedeff had asked questions , Colia had hinted , and Vera had shed tears . What was it ? At last , with a sigh of annoyance , he said to himself that it was nothing but his own cursed sickly suspicion . His face lighted up with joy when , at about two o'clock , he espied the Epanchins coming along to pay him a short visit , `` just for a minute . '' They really had only come for a minute . Lizabetha Prokofievna had announced , directly after lunch , that they would all take a walk together . The information was given in the form of a command , without explanation , drily and abruptly .