“I can’t offer you coffee here; but why not spend five minutes with a friend?” Porfiry pattered on, “and you know all these official duties⁠ ⁠… please don’t mind my running up and down, excuse it, my dear fellow, I am very much afraid of offending you, but exercise is absolutely indispensable for me. I’m always sitting and so glad to be moving about for five minutes⁠ ⁠… I suffer from my sedentary life⁠ ⁠… I always intend to join a gymnasium; they say that officials of all ranks, even Privy Councillors, may be seen skipping gaily there; there you have it, modern science⁠ ⁠… yes, yes.⁠ ⁠… But as for my duties here, inquiries and all such formalities⁠ ⁠… you mentioned inquiries yourself just now⁠ ⁠… I assure you these interrogations are sometimes more embarrassing for the interrogator than for the interrogated.⁠ ⁠… You made the observation yourself just now very aptly and wittily.” (Raskolnikov had made no observation of the kind.) “One gets into a muddle! A regular muddle! One keeps harping on the same note, like a drum! There is to be a reform and we shall be called by a different name, at least, he-he-he! And as for our legal tradition, as you so wittily called it, I thoroughly agree with you.