for whom do you take me ?" he asked quickly.
"Why, aren't you the prince ?" "I never have been one." "So yourself, yourself, you tell me straight to my face that you're not the prince ?" "I tell you I never have been." "Good Lord!" she cried, clasping her hands.

"I was ready to expect anything from _his_ enemies, but such insolence, never! Is he alive ?" she shrieked in a frenzy, turning upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch.

"Have you killed him?
Confess!" "Whom do you take me for ?" he cried, jumping up from his chair with a distorted face; but it was not easy now to frighten her.

She was triumphant.
"Who can tell who you are and where you've sprung from?
Only my heart, my heart had misgivings all these five years, of all the intrigues.

And I've been sitting here wondering what blind owl was making up to me?
No, my dear, you're a poor actor, worse than Lebyadkin even.