well--let's go in.
Go in.
lt's so dark.
You can see quite enough.
- l can just see there's a bed.
- Go nearer.
- ls it you?
- Yes.
l see you are shuddering,
Lef Nicolaievitch
l don't know what l shall do with you
Because, you know, if you were ill now,
or anything, they might hear it in the yard, or even
in the street, and guess that someone
was passing the night in the house.
l am not at home.So that l want them
to not know we are spending the night here.
Wait. l asked both the porter and the
woman whether Nastasia Philipovna
had spent last night in
the house; so they knew.
No one knows she slept here.
Last night we came in just as
carefully as you and l did today.
l thought as l came along with her
that she would not like to creep
in so secretly, but l was quite wrong.
She whispered, and walked on tip-toe;
she carried her skirt over her arm,
so that it shouldn't rustle,
and she held up her finger at me
on the stairs, so that l shouldn't
make a noise--it was you she was afraid of.
Take me to your own house,
where you can hide me, and tomorrow
we'll set off for Moscow.'
There she would go to Orel, she said.
When she went to bed, she was
still talking about going to Orel.
Wait! What do you
intend to do now, Parfen?
Well, l'm afraid of you.
You shudder and tremble so.
l'll take the cushions off all the sofas,
and lay them down on the floor,
up against the curtain here--for you
and me--so that we shall be together.
For if they come in and look about now,
you know, they'll find her,
and they'll be asking me questions,
and l shall say l did it,
So let her lie close to us
close to you and me.
Yes, yes.
So we will not say anything
about it, or let them take her away?
Not for anything! No, no, no!
So l had decided, my friend;
not to give her up to anyone.
We'll be very quiet.
lt is so hot.
Do you find it bad?
l don't know perhaps
by morning it will be.
l've covered her with oil-cloth--best
American oilcloth,
and put the
sheet over that
and four jars of disinfectant,
on account of the smell.
And she's lying
so still; you shall see
-What! can't you get up?
- My legs won't move, it's fear, l know.
When my fear is over, l'll get up
Wait a bit l'll make the bed,
and you can lie down.
l'll lie down, too, and we'll listen
and watch, for l don't know yet what
l shall do... l tell you beforehand,
so that you may be ready in case.
lt's hot weather, you see and, naturally,
there will be a smell.
l daren't open the window. My mother has
some beautiful flowers in pots;
they have a delicious scent;
l thought of fetching them in,
but that old servant will find
out, she's very inquisitive.
Yes, she is inquisitive.
Listen tell me how did
you with a knife? That same one?
Yes, that same one.
Wait a minute, l want to ask you
something else, Parfen; all sorts of things;
but tell me first, did you intend to kill
her before my wedding
at the church
door, with your knife?
l don't know whether l did or not.
Did you nevertake your
knife to Pavlofsk with you?
No.
As to the knife this is all l
can tell you about it.
l took it out
of the locked drawerthis morning
about three, for it was in the early
morning all this--happened.
lt has been inside the book ever
since--and--and--this is what is
such a marvel to me, the knife
only went in a couple of inches at most,
just under her left breast,
and there wasn't more than half
a tablespoonful of blood altogether, not more.
Yes, yes, yes.
l know, l know, l've read of that
sort of thing. Sometimes there isn't a
drop, if the blow goes straight to the heart.
Wait-listen! Somebody's walking about,
do you hear? ln the hall.
l hear.
Shall we shut the door, and lock it, or not?
Yes, lock it.
That officer, eh!--that young officer
don't you rememberthat fellow at the band?
Eh? Ha, ha, ha! Didn't she whip him smartly, eh?
One year later.
Switzerland.
You can talk to him.
Though hardly probable
he will