EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Well then [looks at paper]—your name, position, religion—all that I have put down. Is it correct?
LISA. Yes.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. You are accused of contracting a marriage with another man, knowing your husband to be alive.
LISA. I did not know it.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. And also of having persuaded your husband, and bribed him with money, to commit a fraud—a pretended suicide—in order to free yourself of him.
LISA. That is all untrue.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Well then, allow me to put a few questions. Did you send him 1,200 roubles in July of last year?
LISA. It was his own money, the proceeds of the sale of some things of his. At the time I parted from him, and when I was expecting a divorce, I sent him the money.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Just so! Very well. That money was sent to him on the 17th of July, two days before his disappearance?
LISA. I think it was on the 17th, but I don't remember.