"She treats him just like a footman.

I've heard her myself calling to him, 'Lebyadkin, give me some water!' And she laughed as she said it.

The only difference is that he doesn't fetch the water but beats her for it; but she isn't a bit afraid of him.

She has some sort of nervous fits, almost every day, and they are destroying her memory so that afterwards she forgets everything that's just happened, and is always in a muddle over time.

You imagine she remembers how you came in; perhaps she does remember, but no doubt she has changed everything to please herself, and she takes us now for different people from what we are, though she knows I'm 'Shatushka.' It doesn't matter my speaking aloud, she soon leaves off listening to people who talk to her, and plunges into dreams.