"You have been told!" put in Krasavin roughly and sharply.
"I don't understand," Maklakov declared calmly.
"You?" shouted Sasha. "You lie! You do understand!"
"No."
"And I say you do, but you're a coward, you're a nobleman—and—and—and I know you."
"Maybe," said Maklakov. "But do you know what you want?" He spoke in so cold a tone, and put so much significance into his voice, that Yevsey trembled and thought:
"Will Sasha strike him?"
Sasha, however, merely repeated the question in a screeching voice:
"I? Do I know what I want?"
"Yes."