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The ladies slowly followed Razumihin, who went on before, and

when they reached the landlady's door on the fourth storey, they

noticed that her door was a tiny crack open and that two keen

black eyes were watching them from the darkness within. When

their eyes met, the door was suddenly shut with such a slam that

Pulcheria Alexandrovna almost cried out.

CHAPTER III

"He is well, quite well!" Zossimov cried cheerfully as they

entered.

He had come in ten minutes earlier and was sitting in the same

place as before, on the sofa. Raskolnikov was sitting in the

opposite corner, fully dressed and carefully washed and combed,

as he had not been for some time past. The room was immediately

crowded, yet Nastasya managed to follow the visitors in and

stayed to listen.