he will go to them, or whether they are coming here?"

"They are coming, I think," said Razumihin, understanding the object

of the question, "and they will discuss their family affairs, no

doubt. I'll be off. You, as the doctor, have more right to be here

"But I am not a father confessor; I shall come and go away; I've

plenty to do besides looking after them."

"One thing worries me," interposed Razumihin, frowning. "On the

way home I talked a lot of drunken nonsense to him... all sort of