Have you taken the measure of your sacrifice, both of you?
Is it right?
Can you bear it?
Is it any use?
Is there sense in it?
And let me tell you, Dounia, Sonia's life is no worse than life with Mr.Luzhin.

'There can be no question of love,' mother writes.

And what if there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is aversion, contempt, repulsion, what then?
So you will have to 'keep up your appearance,' too.

Is not that so?
Do you understand what that smartness means?
Do you understand that the Luzhin smartness is just the same thing as Sonia's and may be worse, viler, baser, because in your case, Dounia, it's a bargain for luxuries, after all, but with Sonia it's simply a question of starvation.

It has to be paid for, it has to be paid for, Dounia, this smartness.