Chapter 21 No.21

'How is it you don't know your own lodger?' said Beletski, addressing

Maryanka.

'How is one to know him if he never comes to see us?' answered

Maryanka, with a look at Olenin.

Olenin felt frightened, he did not know of what. He flushed and, hardly knowing what he was saying, remarked: 'I'm afraid of your mother. She gave me such a scold