“I am not uneasy. He is only here at night. The old woman is in the hospital, her daughter-in-law is dead. I’ve been alone for the last two days. I’ve shown him the place in the paling where you can take a board out; he gets through, no one sees.”
“I’ll take him away soon.”
“He says he has got plenty of places to stay the night in.”
“That’s rot; they are looking for him, but here he wouldn’t be noticed. Do you ever get into talk with him?”
“Yes, at night. He abuses you tremendously. I’ve been reading the ‘Apocalypse’ to him at night, and we have tea. He listened eagerly, very eagerly, the whole night.”
“Hang it all, you’ll convert him to Christianity!”
“He is a Christian as it is. Don’t be uneasy, he’ll do the murder. Whom do you want to murder?”
“No, I don’t want him for that, I want him for something different.… And does Shatov know about Fedka?”
“I don’t talk to Shatov, and I don’t see him.”
“Is he angry?”