I have not bound myself in any way; it's a mistake on your part." "I say, what's this you're doing ?" Pyotr Stepanovitch jumped up.
"What I choose." "What do you choose ?" "The same as before." "How am I to understand that?
Does that mean that you are in the same mind ?" "Yes.

Only there's no agreement and never has been, and I have not bound myself in any way.

I could do as I like and I can still do as I like." Kirillov explained himself curtly and contemptuously.
"I agree, I agree; be as free as you like if you don't change your mind." Pyotr Stepanovitch sat down again with a satisfied air.

"You are angry over a word.

You've become very irritable of late; that's why I've avoided coming to see you, I was quite sure, though, you would be loyal." "I dislike you very much, but you can be perfectly sure--though I don't regard it as loyalty and disloyalty." "But do you know" (Pyotr Stepanovitch was startled again) "we must talk things over thoroughly again so as not to get in a muddle.