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that your brother is deceiving me.” “Calm yourself,” said Amalia, “I’m not acquainted with them, nothing could induce me to become acquainted with them, nothing at all, not even my consideration for you, which would move me to do a great deal, for, as you say, we are good-natured people. But my brother’s affairs are his own business, I know nothing about them except what I hear by chance now and then against my will. On the other hand Olga can tell you all about them, for she’s in his confidence.” And Amalia went away, first to her parents, with whom she whispered, then to the kitchen; she went without taking leave of K. , as if she knew that he would stay for a long time yet and that no goodbye was necessary.