person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give

Five minutes later he raised his head with a strange smile. That was

"Perhaps it really would be better in Siberia," he thought suddenly.

He could not have said how long he sat there with vague thoughts

surging through his mind. All at once the door opened and Dounia

came in. At first she stood still and looked at him from the

doorway, just as he had done at Sonia; then she came in and sat down

in the same place as yesterday, on the chair facing him. He looked

silently and almost vacantly at her.