I ran out to the shop just now, left my little girl to look after her--and here she's in trouble again! A neighbour, gentleman, a neighbour, we live close by, the second house from the end, see yonder...." The crowd broke up.

The police still remained round the woman, someone mentioned the police station....

Raskolnikov looked on with a strange sensation of indifference and apathy.

He felt disgusted.

"No, that's loathsome...