for, and that some elementary laboratory work toward acquiring

"And if you'd gone to prison, what then? Do you remember what I said

Again she did not answer. He waited.

"I thought you would cry out again 'don't speak of it, leave

off.'" Raskolnikov gave a laugh, but rather a forced one. "What,

silence again?" he asked a minute later. "We must talk about

something, you know. It would be interesting for me to know how you

would decide a certain 'problem' as Lebeziatnikov would say." (He

was beginning to lose the thread.) "No, really, I am serious. Imagine,