-monger?
You spoke of a meeting with Nastasia Philipovna
Nastasia has been sent for on purpose,
through Rogojin, from St. Petersburg
and to this house Aglaya lvanovna is to proceed
for a friendly chat with Nastasia Philipovna,
and for the settlement of several problems.
They are going to play at arithmetic,
didn't you know about it?
No.
Word of honour?
lt's a most improbable story.
Oh, very well! if it's improbable
However, l've warned you,
and you may be grateful to me.
Well au revoir
probably in the next world!
One more thing
don't think that l am telling you all this for your sake.
l am atoning for that, you see, meeting
by telling you the place and time of it
You had better take your measures,
if you are worthy the name of a man!
You had better
take your measures
Aglaya Ivanovna herself intends to go to Nastasia Philipovna
Nastasia would hardly go to her
No. lt is impossible.
You don't know the habits of that house
she COULD not get away alone to Nastasia Philipovna's!
lt's all nonsense!
Look here, my dear prince, no
one jumps out of the window
''if they can help it; but when there's
a fire, the finest lady in the world will skip out!''
l didn't mean that exactly.
Ships are burned behind one sometimes,
and one doesn't care to return whence one came.
Life need not consist only of lunches,
and dinners, and Prince S's.
lt strikes me you take Aglaya lvanovna for some
conventional boarding-school girl.
Hello, prince.
Hello, prince.
How are you?
Not good.
Oh, that's nothing
l'm not sorry for the vase,
l'm sorry for you.
so you can see that there was a 'scene,'
Oh, that's nothing
For everyone must realize now
that it is impossible to be hard on you.
So.
Get better.
l advise you to have a walk,
and then go to sleep again if you can.
Come in as usual,
and be assured, once for all,
whatever happens,
and whatever may have happened,
you shall always remain the friend of the family
mine, at all events.
l can answer for myself.
Good day, prince.
Get better.
Lef Nicolaievitch
Aglaya lvanovna has just given
me a message for you.
- ls it a note?
- No, a verbal message.
She begs you earnestly
not to go out of the house for
a single moment at all today
until seven o'clock in the evening.
lt may have been nine
You are quite ready
l see somebody has thought fit to warn you
and l know who. Hippolyte?
Yes, he told me
Come then. l suppose, that
you must escort me there?
You are well enough to go out, aren't you?
l am well enough
but is it really possible?
You know of course
why l requested this meeting?
No, l know nothing about it
You know quite well, but you
are pretending to be ignorant
Why should l?
You want to take advantage of my position,
now that l am in your house
For that position YOU are to blame and not l
l did not invite YOU, but you me
l wished to reply to all you have written to me
and to reply personally
l began to be sorry for Prince Lef Nicolaievitch
on the very day l made his acquaintance
and when l heard afterwards
of all that took place at your house in the evening
''What l feared actually took place;
you could not love him ''
you tortured him, and threw him over.
You could not love him because
no, not proud, that is an error
because you are too vain
no, not quite that either
''too self-loving; you are self-loving to madness''
. Your letters to me are a proof of it.
You could not love so simple a soul as his
, and perhaps in your heart you
despised him and laughed at him.
All you could love was your shame
and the perpetual thought
that you were disgraced and insulted.
lf you were less shameful,
or had no cause at all for shame
you would be still more unhappy
He wrote me a letter
After receiving his letter l waited
l guessed that you would soon come back here
because you could never do without Petersburg
you are still too young and lovely for the provinces.
When l next saw the prince l began
to feel