“But perhaps that’s my shirt on the table,” he thought, “and that’s my legs, and that is the door, but why is it always stretching and drawing itself out, and ‘ piti-piti-piti ’ and ‘ titi ’ and ‘ piti-piti-piti ’⁠ ⁠… ? That’s enough, please leave off!” Prince Andréy painfully entreated someone. And suddenly thoughts and feelings again swam to the surface of his mind with peculiar clearness and force.