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"Yes, I--I. I went to see them," she went on, weeping, "and

father said, 'read me something, Sonia, my head aches, read to

me, here's a book.' He had a book he had got from Andrey

Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov, he lives there, he always used to get

hold of such funny books. And I said, 'I can't stay,' as I didn't

want to read, and I'd gone in chiefly to show Katerina Ivanovna

some collars. Lizaveta, the pedlar, sold me some collars and

cuffs cheap, pretty, new, embroidered ones. Katerina Ivanovna

liked them very much; she put them on and looked at herself in

the glass and was delighted with them. 'Make me a present of

them, Sonia,' she said, 'please do.' 'Please do,' she said, she

wanted them so much. And when could she wear them? They just

reminded her of her old happy days. She looked at herself in the

glass, admired herself, and she has no clothes at all, no things

of her own, hasn't had all these years!