Did she not tell me that the very idea that I could be jealous of her because of him was humiliating to her ?' 'Yes, but she lied,' I cried, and all began over again.
"There were only two travellers in my compartment: an old woman with her husband, neither of them very talkative; and even they got out at one of the stations, leaving me all alone.

I was like a beast in a cage.

Now I jumped up and approached the window, now I began to walk back and forth, staggering as if I hoped to make the train go faster by my efforts, and the car with its seats and its windows trembled continually, as ours does now." And Posdnicheff rose abruptly, took a few steps, and sat down again.
"Oh, I am afraid, I am afraid of railway carriages.

Fear seizes me.

I sat down again, and I said to myself: 'I must think of something else.
For instance, of the inn keeper at whose house I took tea.' And then, in my imagination arose the dvornik, with his long beard, and his grandson, a little fellow of the same age as my little Basile.