Good-bye." III Outside influences, too, had come into play in the matter, however.
Pyotr Stepanovitch certainly had some designs on his parent.

In my opinion he calculated upon reducing the old man to despair, and so to driving him to some open scandal of a certain sort.

This was to serve some remote and quite other object of his own, of which I shall speak hereafter.

All sorts of plans and calculations of this kind were swarming in masses in his mind at that time, and almost all, of course, of a fantastic character.

He had designs on another victim besides Stepan Trofimovitch.