For that's Katerina Ivanovna's character, and when children cry, even from hunger, she falls to beating them at once.

At six o'clock I saw Sonia get up, put on her kerchief and her cape, and go out of the room and about nine o'clock she came back.

She walked straight up to Katerina Ivanovna and she laid thirty roubles on the table before her in silence.

She did not utter a word, she did not even look at her, she simply picked up our big green _drap de dames_ shawl (we have a shawl, made of _drap de dames_), put it over her head and face and lay down on the bed with her face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her body kept shuddering....

And I went on lying there, just as before....
And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same silence go up to Sonia's little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia's feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other's arms...