nine o’clock
Madame Hohlakov asked impulsively . `` If you would kindly listen , madam , for half a moment , I 'll explain it all in a couple of words , '' answered Perhotin , firmly . `` At five o'clock this afternoon Dmitri Fyodorovitch borrowed ten roubles from me , and I know for a fact he had no money . Yet at nine o'clock , he came to see me with a bundle of hundred‐rouble notes in his hand , about two or three thousand roubles . His hands and face were all covered with blood , and he looked like a madman . When I asked him where he had got so much money , he answered that he had just received it from you , that you had given him a sum of three thousand to go to the gold‐mines ... '' Madame Hohlakov 's face assumed an expression of intense and painful excitement . `` Good God !