Please don't be hurt, Stepan Trofimovitch.

It's characteristic of your generation, I take a broad view of it, and don't blame you.

And let's admit it does you honour and all the rest.

But the point is again that I don't see the point of it.

There's something about some sort of 'sins in Switzerland.' 'I'm getting married,' he says, for my sins or on account of the 'sins' of another,' or whatever it is--'sins' anyway.