to, and do something.”
“And if he hadn’t come?”
“Then nothing would have happened. I should never have brought myself to it without him.”
“All right, all right … speak more intelligibly, don’t hurry; above all, don’t leave anything out!”
“I expected him to kill Fyodor Pavlovitch. I thought that was certain, for I had prepared him for it … during the last few days. … He knew about the knocks, that was the chief thing. With his suspiciousness and the fury which had been growing in him all those days, he was bound to get into the house by means of those taps. That was inevitable, so I was expecting him.”
“Stay,” Ivan interrupted; “if he had killed him, he would have taken the money and carried it away; you must have considered that. What would you have got by it afterwards? I don’t see.”
“But he would never have