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But do sit down, for goodness' sake. Please rest, you look

shocking, do sit down."

Raskolnikov sat down; he no longer shivered, he was hot all over.

In amazement he listened with strained attention to Porfiry

Petrovitch who still seemed frightened as he looked after him

with friendly solicitude. But he did not believe a word he said,

though he felt a strange inclination to believe. Porfiry's

unexpected words about the flat had utterly overwhelmed him. "How

can it be, he knows about the flat then," he thought suddenly,

"and he tells it me himself!"