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"No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew

it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive myself to spare

her," he said to himself. And it actually seemed to him that he

always had seen it: he recalled incidents of their past life, in

which he had never seen anything wrong before-now these incidents

proved clearly that she had always been a corrupt woman. "I made

a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong

in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy. It's not I that am to

blame," he told himself, "but she. But I have nothing to do with

her. She does not exist for me...."