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- 206 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
overcome with confusion. Avdotya Romanovna couldn't help
laughing when she looked at him.
"You may both be mistaken about Rodya," Pulcheria Alex-
androvna remarked, slightly piqued. "I am not talking of our
present diflficulty, Dounia. What Pyotr Petrovitch writes in
this letter and what you and I have supposed may be mistaken,
but you can't imagine, Dmitri Prokofitch, how moody and, so
to say, capricious he is. I never could depend on what he would
do when he was only fifteen. And I am sure that he might do
something now that nobody else would think of doing . . . Well,
for instance, do you know how a year and a half ago he as-
tounded me and gave me a shock that nearly killed me, when
he had the idea of marrying that girl — what was her name — his
landlady's daughter?"
"Did you hear about that affair?" asked Avdotya Romanovna.
"Do you suppose — " Pulcheria Alexandrovna continued
warmly. "Do you suppose that my tears, my entreaties, my
illness, my possible death from grief, our poverty would have
made him pause? No, he would calmly have disregarded all ob-
stacles. And yet it isn't that he doesn't love us!"
"He has never spoken a word of that affair to me," Razumi-
hin answered cautiously. "But I did hear something from Pras-
kovya Pavlovna herself, though she is by no means a gossip.
And what I heard certainly was rather strange."
"And what did you hear?" both the ladies asked at once.
"Well, nothing very special. I only learned that the marriage,
which only failed to take place through the girl's death, was not
at all to Praskovya Pavlovna's liking. They say, too, the girl
was not at all pretty, in fact I am told positively ugly . . .
and such an invaHd . . . and queer. But she seems to have had
some good qualities. She must have had some good qualities or
it's quite inexplicable. . . . She had no money either and he
wouldn't have considered her money. . . . But it's always difficult
to judge in such matters."
"I am sure she was a good girl," Avdotya Romanovna
observed briefly.
"God forgive me, I simply rejoiced at her death. Though
I don't know which of them would have caused most misery to
the other — he to her or she to him," Pulcheria Alexandrovna
concluded. Then she began tentatively questioning him about
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