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"I say that because I suppose there were a great many pledges...

that it must be difficult to remember them all.... But you

remember them all so clearly, and... and..."

"Stupid! Feeble!" he thought. "Why did I add that?"

"But we know all who had pledges, and you are the only one who

hasn't come forward," Porfiry answered with hardly perceptible

irony.

"I haven't been quite well."

"I heard that too. I heard, indeed, that you were in great

distress about something. You look pale still."

"I am not pale at all.... No, I am quite well," Raskolnikov

snapped out rudely and angrily, completely changing his tone. His

anger was mounting, he could not repress it. "And in my anger I

shall betray myself," flashed through his mind again. "Why are

they torturing me?"