expenses; they had abused the deposition with questions

room, whether you were here, whether I had seen you among Katerina

Ivanovna's guests. He called me aside to the window and asked me in

secret. It was essential for him that you should be here! That's it,

Luzhin smiled contemptuously and did not speak. But he was very

pale. He seemed to be deliberating on some means of escape. Perhaps he

would have been glad to give up everything and get away, but at the

moment this was scarcely possible. It would have implied admitting the

truth of the accusations brought against him. Moreover, the company,