“But as if that is enough!” cried Evgenie, indignantly. “As if it is enough simply to say: ‘I know I am very guilty!’ You are to blame, and yet you persevere in evildoing. Where was your heart, I should like to know, your Christian heart , all that time? Did she look as though she were suffering less, at that moment? You saw her face⁠—was she suffering less than the other woman? How could you see her suffering and allow it to continue? How could you?”

“But I did not allow it,” murmured the wretched prince.

“How⁠—what do you mean you didn’t allow?”

“Upon my word, I didn’t! To this moment I don’t know how it all happened. I⁠—I ran after Aglaya Ivanovna, but Nastasia Philipovna fell down in a faint; and since that day they won’t let me see Aglaya⁠—that’s all I know.”

“It’s all the same; you ought to have run after Aglaya though the other was fainting.”