two o'clock in the
afternoon
_ Only now for the first time I understand what is meant by ... turning the other cheek . I never understood before ! '' The two days that followed were among the most terrible in Sofya Matveyevna 's life ; she remembers them with a shudder to this day . Stepan Trofimovitch became so seriously ill that he could not go on board the steamer , which on this occasion arrived punctually at two o'clock in the afternoon . She could not bring herself to leave him alone , so she did not leave for Spasov either . From her account he was positively delighted at the steamer 's going without him . `` Well , that 's a good thing , that 's capital ! ''