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Katerina Ivanovna, however, put off expressing her feelings for

the time and contented herself with treating her coldly, though

she decided inwardly that she would certainly have to put Amalia

Ivanovna down and set her in her proper place, for goodness only

knew what she was fancying herself. Katerina Ivanovna was

irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited

had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to

run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest

and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched

creatures, many of them not quite sober. The older and more

respectable of them all, as if by common consent, stayed away.