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He returned home, twice as irritated and angry as before. The

preparations for the funeral dinner at Katerina Ivanovna's

excited his curiosity as he passed. He had heard about it the day

before; he fancied, indeed, that he had been invited, but

absorbed in his own cares he had paid no attention. Inquiring of

Madame Lippevechsel who was busy laying the table while Katerina

Ivanovna was away at the cemetery, he heard that the

entertainment was to be a great affair, that all the lodgers had

been invited, among them some who had not known the dead man,

that even Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov was invited in spite

of his previous quarrel with Katerina Ivanovna, that he, Pyotr

Petrovitch, was not only invited, but was eagerly expected as he

was the most important of the lodgers.