one day a week for about a year. For the first time in

assist us. But there is one circumstance of which I ought to warn

you beforehand and for which I venture to trouble you, Sofya

Semyonovna, to come here. In my opinion money cannot be, indeed it's

unsafe to put it into Katerina Ivanovna's own hands. The dinner to-day

is a proof of that. Though she has not, so to speak, a crust of

bread for to-morrow and... well, boots or shoes, or anything; she

has bought to-day Jamaica rum, and even, I believe, Madeira and... and

coffee. I saw it as I passed through. To-morrow it will all fall