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If there's anything wrong, I swear I'll bring you here myself,

but, if it's all right, you go to bed. And I'll spend the night

here, in the passage, he won't hear me, and I'll tell Zossimov to

sleep at the landlady's, to be at hand. Which is better for him:

you or the doctor? So come home then! But the landlady is out of

the question; it's all right for me, but it's out of the question

for you: she wouldn't take you, for she's... for she's a fool...

She'd be jealous on my account of Avdotya Romanovna and of you,

too, if you want to know... of Avdotya Romanovna certainly. She

is an absolutely, absolutely unaccountable character! But I am a

fool, too!... No matter! Come along! Do you trust me? Come, do

you trust me or not?"

"Let us go, mother," said Avdotya Romanovna, "he will certainly

do what he has promised. He has saved Rodya already, and if the

doctor really will consent to spend the night here, what could be

better?"