“Now I can explain it all to myself,” said Raskolnikov, addressing Lebeziatnikov. “From the very beginning of the business, I suspected that there was some scoundrelly intrigue at the bottom of it. I began to suspect it from some special circumstances known to me only, which I will explain at once to everyone: they account for everything. Your valuable evidence has finally made everything clear to me. I beg all, all to listen. This gentleman (he pointed to Luzhin) was recently engaged to be married to a young lady⁠—my sister, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov. But coming to Petersburg he quarrelled with me, the day before yesterday, at our first meeting and I drove him out of my room⁠—I have two witnesses to prove it. He is a very spiteful man.⁠ ⁠… The day before yesterday I did not know that he was staying here, in your room, and that consequently on the very day we quarrelled⁠—the day before yesterday⁠—he saw me give Katerina Ivanovna some money for the funeral, as a friend of the late Mr.