78/116 It was just this contrast, if you like, that led to the trouble. If the unhappy creature had been in different surroundings, perhaps she would never have been brought to entertain such a frantic delusion. Only a woman can understand it, Pyotr Stepanovitch, only a woman. not that you're not a woman, but that you can't be one just for the moment so as to understand." "You mean in the sense that the worse things are the better it is. |