amendment of the Palestinian charter helped Netanyahu with

from his triumph over Luzhin. But, strange to say, by the time he

reached Sonia's lodging, he felt a sudden impotence and fear. He stood

still in hesitation at the door, asking himself the strange

question: "Must I tell her who killed Lizaveta?" It was a strange

question because he felt at the very time not only that he could not

help telling her, but also that he could not put off the telling. He

did not yet know why it must be so, he only felt it, and the agonising

sense of his impotence before the inevitable almost crushed him. To