Now he has walked away a little, and is standing still, pretending to make a cigarette....

Think how can we keep her out of his hands, and how are we to get her home ?" The policeman saw it all in a flash.

The stout gentleman was easy to understand, he turned to consider the girl.

The policeman bent over to examine her more closely, and his face worked with genuine compassion.
"Ah, what a pity!" he said, shaking his head--"why, she is quite a child! She has been deceived, you can see that at once.

Listen, lady," he began addressing her, "where do you live ?" The girl opened her weary and sleepy-looking eyes, gazed blankly at the speaker and waved her hand.
"Here," said Raskolnikov feeling in his pocket and finding twenty copecks, "here, call a cab and tell him to drive her to her address.