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"What insolence!" cried Dounia, springing up from her seat. "I

don't want you to come back again."

"What! So that's how it stands!" cried Luzhin, utterly unable to

the last moment to believe in the rupture and so completely

thrown out of his reckoning now. "So that's how it stands! But do

you know, Avdotya Romanovna, that I might protest?"

"What right have you to speak to her like that?" Pulcheria

Alexandrovna intervened hotly. "And what can you protest about?

What rights have you? Am I to give my Dounia to a man like you?

Go away, leave us altogether! We are to blame for having agreed

to a wrong action, and I above all...."

"But you have bound me, Pulcheria Alexandrovna," Luzhin stormed

in a frenzy, "by your promise, and now you deny it and...

besides... I have been led on account of that into expenses...."