all about it. A free and full confession will be to your

Maslova continued to look at the president in silence, and

"How it happened?" Maslova suddenly began, speaking quickly. "I

came to the lodging-house, and was shown into the room. He was

there, already very drunk." She pronounced the word HE with a

look of horror in her wide-open eyes. "I wished to go away, but

he would not let me." She stopped, as if having lost the thread,

"Well, what then? I remained a bit, and went home again."