"Young man!" "Eh, wait, wait!" "What do you want?" "Money." "I'm hungry." "I have no money and I'm hungry too." " You're lying." " No." "Understand, me too..." "I can well see that you are not hungry." " You have eaten." " No." "That's not good." " You are refusing." " No." "Avid man!" "I just wanted to ask..." "about the old woman... that was killed over there, in flat number 40" "There was blood, a whole puddle" " What do you want?" " Nothing." "Who is he?" "Certainly a spy." "I'm not a spy." "What do you want?" "I just wanted to know about the old woman." "Did you go to her flat?" "I didn't go anywhere." "I just wanted something to eat." "I'm hungry." "Let me!" "He's light, quite light !" "Let me go !" "Light as a feather !" "To the right, more to the right!" "Excuse me." "I've been sent to warn you." "But I wasn't looking for you." "I was simply walking and thinking... and I heard your voice." "Could you come to the cemetery... to assist the ceremony for the defunct?" "Why are you so silent?" "Won't you come?" "Aren't you listening to me?" "Good morning..." "I will come, I'll certainly come!" "Then please, have a seat." "I'm silent because your voice is so sweet and calm that it's a pleasure to listen to you." "Mom, she is the daughter of that poor one who yesterday has been crushed by some horses." "You would have thought it was done on purpose." "I wanted to ask you this:" "haven't you been disturbed by the police?" "No." "Only the neighbours are furious." "And why?" "The body is in the flat." "It smells... old." "Why are you looking at my room this way?" "Mom says it looks like a tomb." "How did you find me?" "I haven't found you." "I was thinking of you... and I heard your voice." "My voice?" "Ah yes, your little sister..." "I gave her my address." "Don't you remember me?" "Certainly not." "You have to fill in the application, specifying that you wish to retrieve your things... left with the deceased woman." "Write down the details... rather swiftly" "on the administration papers... and above all... correctly." "Aren't you cold?" "You're letting your pen creak." "You shouldn't." "It's the pen that's no good." "Don't press so hard." "Be concise." "The more things that are in your list the less chance you'll have to reclaim them." "It's like for... the coachmen" "The less you ask of them... the safer you are." "I don't go travelling by coach." "Note down about six objects... or seven." "Not more." "Foolish!" "Oh Lord..." "Give me more paper, will you?" "Sure, it doesn't fit on one sheet." "It's really a pity." "May I?" "That's it..." "Oh!" "So many things!" "And your handwriting is illegible." "I'm' not stingy about paper, but look..." "Did you read back what you wrote?" " You know..." " What more?" "You could not love... my hands, my laces, my shoes whatever you want" "God forbid!" "but I won't allow anyone to make fun of me." "It's not making fun of you that's necessary, but saving you from these imaginary murdered old women." "What are you saying?" " Your handwriting..." " What are you talking about..." " What handwriting?" " Is it your signature?" "What signature?" "Your signature, yours." "Well, well." "Oh God!" " Are you hurt?" " Actually..." "You have five hours left and if you ever decide... to end things in a dramatic way..." "Oh, but why crap right on the stairs?" "Be kind and leave a note of about 20 lines, not more." "So, I wish you... good luck!" "What's the matter with you?" "Don't be afraid." "It's nothing... silly things." "Why did I come to torment you?" "Why?" " What happened?" " What?" "What's the matter?" "Sit." "Well..." "Last time I told you... that we wouldn't see each other anymore..." "I decided to come back today... and tell you who killed Elisabeth." "That's why I've come." "How could you know?" "Guess..." "See..." "I..." "I'm a great friend of that man." "He didn't intend to kill." "It was an accident." "Can't you guess?" "Can't you see it?" "Then, look harder." "Look harder!" "Then?" "Could I have done it?" "Did you guess?" "Won't you leave me?" "No." "What if, after all, it was me?" "Then... on your knees !" "Get down on your knees  in the big square." "Prostrate yourself... and kiss the ground you desecrated." "Then tell all the world:" ""I have killed."" "Then God will give you a new life." "Will you go?" "Will you go?" "Are you talking about jail?" "Should I go and denounce myself?" "I will not go." "They destroy millions of people, and think to be respectable." "Scoundrels!" "What should I say to them?" ""I killed... and I didn't dare to take the money."" "They would mock me!" ""What an imbecile not to take it!"" "A coward and an imbecile." "They wouldn't understand." "And they don't deserve to understand." "I won't go." "You should eat something." "Then don't go." "I have to go." "Did you eat?" "Is it 11 o'clock already?" "Yes." "Yes, it was tolled by the neighbours'." "I could hear it." "I will come here no more." "Are you cold?" "No, I'm fine." "How thin you are!" "Your hands are the hands of a dead one." "They've always been this way." "Why are you standing?" "Sit down." "Your father told me all about you." "How you went out at six o'clock and came back after nine o'clock." "And how Katerina Ivanovna... knelt in front of your bed." "Katerina Ivanovna is sick with consumption." "She'll die soon." "No!" "It would be better if she dies." "Not "better", not at all better." "You go out every day?" "No." "Your sister will do the same." "No!" "It's not possible." "And why isn't it possible?" "God will not allow such a tragedy." "He allows far more." " God will protect her." " But God doesn't exist!" "I committed a grave sin..." "I'm a sinner." "You're not a sinner." "If you're a sinner... then what am I?" "Sin and Shame form an alliance... so easily in you with the highest feelings." "Let nobody lie and say that it's easier and more honest to dip one's head into the water and end it all." "Above all, let nobody lie." "After all, it's nothing, nothing." "You say you pray God?" "What would become of me without God?" "And God?" "Does he do something for you?" "Nothing." "Because you're too poor and too insignificant for him."