nearly eleven o'clock at night
`` I agree , '' replied the general . `` Let us see Gutchkoff at once , '' he added . General Gutchkoff was a Jew and the director of the dreaded political police , with whom Rogogin , of course , worked hand-in-glove . It was then nearly eleven o'clock at night , but we all three drove to General Gutchkoff 's house in the Spaskaya . He was out , his man informed us . `` I must see him at once , '' said the monk loftily . `` Where is he ? ''