Tell me, why do you seem to be penitent for having thought I should come to kill you?
I have not come now to be reconciled, but to talk of something necessary.

Enlighten me to begin with.

You didn't give me that blow because of my connection with your wife ?" "You know I didn't, yourself," said Shatov, looking down again.
"And not because you believed the stupid gossip about Darya Pavlovna ?" "No, no, of course not! It's nonsense! My sister told me from the very first..." Shatov said, harshly and impatiently, and even with a slight stamp of his foot.
"Then I guessed right and you too guessed right," Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch went on in a tranquil voice.

"You are right.

Marya Timofyevna Lebyadkin is my lawful wife, married to me four and a half years ago in Petersburg.