you understand?
was just being hatched in their brains...

you understand?
That is, no one ventured to say it aloud, because the idea is too absurd and especially since the arrest of that painter, that bubble's burst and gone for ever.

But why are they such fools?
I gave Zametov a bit of a thrashing at the time--that's between ourselves, brother; please don't let out a hint that you know of it; I've noticed he is a ticklish subject; it was at Luise Ivanovna's.

But to-day, to-day it's all cleared up.

That Ilya Petrovitch is at the bottom of it! He took advantage of your fainting at the police station, but he is ashamed of it himself now; I know that..." Raskolnikov listened greedily.