"Who is 'we'? Yourself?"
"Oh dear no! My sister, and Porfiri Platonitch, with whom you no longer quarrel, and my aunt, whom, three days ago, you escorted to church."
"I did so only because I could not refuse. And as regards Anna Sergievna, kindly remember that, in many things, she agrees with Bazarov."
"Yes, she used to be greatly under his influence, and so did you."
"And so did I? Then am I now emancipated from that influence?"
Katia returned no reply.
"I know that you never liked him," Arkady continued.
"Did I not? It was not for me to judge him."
"Never do I hear that reply without declining to believe it. There is not a person living whom all of us have not the right to judge. A disclaimer of that kind always represents an excuse."
"To tell the truth, I disliked him less than I felt him to be a stranger to me—as complete a one as I to him—or you either, for that matter."