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"If it all has really been done deliberately and not idiotically,

if I really had a certain and definite object, how is it I did

not even glance into the purse and don't know what I had there,

for which I have undergone these agonies, and have deliberately

undertaken this base, filthy degrading business? And here I

wanted at once to throw into the water the purse together with

all the things which I had not seen either... how's that?"

Yes, that was so, that was all so. Yet he had known it all

before, and it was not a new question for him, even when it was

decided in the night without hesitation and consideration, as

though so it must be, as though it could not possibly be

otherwise.... Yes, he had known it all, and understood it all; it

surely had all been settled even yesterday at the moment when he

was bending over the box and pulling the jewel-cases out of

it.... Yes, so it was.