you were still contemplating going to Katerina Ivanovna to beg that sum from her. … I assure you, that’s a very important piece of evidence for us, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I mean for the whole case … and particularly for you, particularly important for you.”
“Have mercy, gentlemen!” Mitya flung up his hands. “Don’t write that, anyway; have some shame. Here I’ve torn my heart asunder before you, and you seize the opportunity and are fingering the wounds in both halves. … Oh, my God!”
In despair he hid his face in his hands.
“Don’t worry yourself so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” observed the prosecutor, “everything that is written down will be read over to you afterwards, and what you don’t agree to we’ll alter as you like. But now I’ll ask you one little question for the second time. Has no one, absolutely no one, heard from