What right have you to speak to her like that?

　　"What insolence!" cried Dounia, springing up from her seat. "I don'twant you to come back again."

　　"What! So that's how it stands!" cried Luzhin, utterly unable to thelast moment to believe in the rupture and so completely thrown outof his reckoning now. "So that's how it stands! But do you know,Avdotya Romanovna, that I might protest?"

　　"What right have you to speak to her like that?" PulcheriaAlexandrovna intervened hotly. "And what can you protest about? Whatrights have you? Am I to give my Dounia to a man like you? Go away,leave us altogether! We are to blame for having agreed to a wrongaction, and I above all...."

　　"But you have bound me, Pulcheria Alexandrovna," Luzhin stormed in afrenzy, "by your promise, and now you deny it and... besides... I havebeen led on account of that into expenses...."

　　This last complaint was so characteristic of Pyotr Petrovitch,that Raskolnikov, pale with anger and with the effort of restrainingit, could not help breaking into laughter. But PulcheriaAlexandrovna was furious.

　　"Expenses? What expenses? Are you speaking of our trunk? But theconductor brought it for nothing for you. Mercy on us, we have boundyou! What are you thinking about, Pyotr Petrovitch, it was you boundus, hand and foot, not we!"

　　"Enough, mother, no more please," Avdotya Romanovna implored. "PyotrPetrovitch, do be kind and go!"

　　"I am going, but one last word," he said, quite unable to controlhimself. "Your mamma seems to have entirely forgotten that I made upmy mind to take you, so to speak, after the gossip of the town hadspread all over the district in regard to your reputation.Disregarding public opinion for your sake and reinstating yourreputation, I certainly might very well reckon on a fitting return,and might indeed look for gratitude on your part. And my eyes haveonly now been opened! I see myself that I may have acted very, veryrecklessly in disregarding the universal verdict...."

　　"Does the fellow want his head smashed?" cried Razumihin, jumpingup.

　　"You are a mean and spiteful man!" cried Dounia.

　　"Not a word! Not a movement!" cried Raskolnikov, holding Razumihinback; then going close up to Luzhin, "Kindly leave the room!" hesaid quietly and distinctly, "and not a word more or..."