mother explained hurriedly. “Katerina Ivanovna has made up her mind, but she must see you about it. … Why, of course, I can’t say. But she wants to see you at once. And you will go to her, of course. It is a Christian
“I have only seen her once,” Alyosha protested with the same perplexity.
“Oh, she is such a lofty, incomparable creature! If only for her suffering. … Think what she has gone through, what she is enduring now! Think what awaits her! It’s all terrible, terrible!”
“Very well, I will come,” Alyosha decided, after rapidly scanning the brief, enigmatic note, which consisted of an urgent entreaty that he would come, without any sort of explanation.
“Oh, how sweet and generous that would be of you!” cried Lise with sudden animation. “I told mamma you’d be sure not to go. I said you were saving your soul. How splendid