A load was lifted from his back.
"And pray, what time were you directed to appear, sir ?" shouted the assistant superintendent, seeming for some unknown reason more and more aggrieved.

"You are told to come at nine, and now it's twelve!" "The notice was only brought me a quarter of an hour ago," Raskolnikov answered loudly over his shoulder.

To his own surprise he, too, grew suddenly angry and found a certain pleasure in it.

"And it's enough that I have come here ill with fever." "Kindly refrain from shouting!" "I'm not shouting, I'm speaking very quietly, it's you who are shouting at me.

I'm a student, and allow no one to shout at me." The assistant superintendent was so furious that for the first minute he could only splutter inarticulately.