a warder, or even a warder's assistant. "Aren't they all given

that way? Only I must not get thin, or else I am lost."

She thought of how the advocate had looked at her, and also the

president, and of the men she met, and those who came in on

purpose at the court. She recollected how her companion, Bertha,

who came to see her in prison, had told her about the student

whom she had "loved" while she was with Kitaeva, and who had

inquired about her, and pitied her very much. She recalled many