But how did you get out of it ?" "I wrote to a man in Europe and he sent me a hundred roubles." As Shatov talked he looked doggedly at the ground as he always did, even when he was excited.

At this point he suddenly raised his head.
"Do you want to know the man's name ?" "Who was it ?" "Nikolay Stavrogin." He got up suddenly, turned to his limewood writing-table and began searching for something on it.

There was a vague, though well-authenticated rumour among us that Shatov's wife had at one time had a liaison with Nikolay Stavrogin, in Paris, and just about two years ago, that is when Shatov was in America.

It is true that this was long after his wife had left him in Geneva.
"If so, what possesses him now to bring his name forward and to lay stress on it ?" I thought.
"I haven't paid him back yet," he said, turning suddenly to me again, and looking at me intently he sat down in the same place as before in the corner, and asked abruptly, in quite a different voice: "You have come no doubt with some object.

What do you want ?" I told him everything immediately, in its exact historical order, and added that though I had time to think it over coolly after the first excitement was over, I was more puzzled than ever.