The student spoke about her with a peculiar relish and was continually laughing and the officer listened with great interest and asked him to send Lizaveta to do some mending for him.

Raskolnikov did not miss a word and learned everything about her.

Lizaveta was younger than the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of a different mother.

She was thirty-five.

She worked day and night for her sister, and besides doing the cooking and the washing, she did sewing and worked as a charwoman and gave her sister all she earned.