"You know there is to be an inquiry.

I only hope you will do plenty of work before they lock you up for a fortnight." "I suppose they will let me work in prison," answered Dumnoff, indifferently.

"They do in some places." Vjera, whose ideas of prisons have been already explained at length, was so much surprised that she at last opened her lips.
"Have you ever been in prison ?" she asked in a wondering tone.
"Several times," replied the other, without looking up.

"But always," he added, as though suddenly anxious for his reputation, "always for that sort of thing--for upsetting somebody who did not want to be upset.

It is a curious thing--I always do it in the same way, and they always tumble down.