but the governing case law was clear: if the Court of Appeals

seen her before, indeed. At the same time I added that he, Pyotr

Petrovitch Luzhin, with all his virtues was not worth Sofya

Semyonovna's little finger, though he spoke so ill of her. To his

question- would I let Sofya Semyonovna sit down beside my sister, I

answered that I had already done so that day. Irritated that my mother

and sister were unwilling to quarrel with me at his insinuations, he

gradually began being unpardonably rude to them. A final rupture

took place and he was turned out of the house. All this happened