“You wouldn’t have supposed it, eh? Wait a bit, I shall take you in, too. Ha-ha-ha! No, I’ll tell you the truth. All these questions about crime, environment, children, recall to my mind an article of yours which interested me at the time. ‘On Crime’⁠ ⁠… or something of the sort, I forget the title, I read it with pleasure two months ago in the Periodical Review .”

“My article? In the Periodical Review ?” Raskolnikov asked in astonishment. “I certainly did write an article upon a book six months ago when I left the university, but I sent it to the Weekly Review .”

“But it came out in the Periodical .”