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"Lizaveta's work," thought the young man. There was not a speck

of dust to be seen in the whole flat.

"It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such

cleanliness," Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious

glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another

tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of

drawers and into which he had never looked before. These two

rooms made up the whole flat.

"What do you want?" the old woman said severely, coming into the

room and, as before, standing in front of him so as to look him

straight in the face.

"I've brought something to pawn here," and he drew out of his

pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which

was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.

"But the time is up for your last pledge. The month was up the

day before yesterday."

"I will bring you the interest for another month; wait a little."