"He was inquiring for people who had pawned things, and I have some pledges there, too--trifles--a ring my sister gave me as a keepsake when I left home, and my father's silver watch--they are only worth five or six roubles altogether... but I value them.
So what am I to do now?
I do not want to lose the things, especially the watch.
I was quaking just now, for fear mother would ask to look at it, when we spoke of Dounia's watch.
It is the only thing of father's left us.
She would be ill if it were lost.
You know what women are.
So tell me what to do.
I know I ought to have given notice at the police station, but would it not be better to go straight to Porfiry? Eh?
What do you think?
The matter might be settled more quickly.
You see, mother may ask for it before dinner."
"Certainly not to the police station. Certainly to Porfiry," Razumihin shouted in extraordinary excitement.
"Well, how glad I am.
Let us go at once. It is a couple of steps. We shall be sure to find him."
"Very well, let us go."
"And he will be very, very glad to make your acquaintance.
I have often talked to him of you at different times.
I was speaking of you yesterday.
Let us go.
So you knew the old woman?
So that's it!
It is all turning out splendidly....
Oh, yes, Sofya Ivanovna..."
"Sofya Semyonovna," corrected Raskolnikov.
"Sofya Semyonovna, this is my friend Razumihin, and he is a good man."
"If you have to go now," Sonia was beginning, not looking at Razumihin at all, and still more embarrassed.
"Let us go," decided Raskolnikov. "I will come to you to-day, Sofya Semyonovna. Only tell me where you live."
He was not exactly ill at ease, but seemed hurried, and avoided her eyes.
Sonia gave her address, and flushed as she did so.
They all went out together.
"Don't you lock up?" asked Razumihin, following him on to the stairs.
"Never," answered Raskolnikov.
"I have been meaning to buy a lock for these two years.
People are happy who have no need of locks," he said, laughing, to Sonia.
They stood still in the gateway.
"Do you go to the right, Sofya Semyonovna?
How did you find me, by the way?" he added, as though he wanted to say something quite different.
He wanted to look at her soft clear eyes, but this was not easy.
"Why, you gave your address to Polenka yesterday."
"Polenka?
Oh, yes; Polenka, that is the little girl.
She is your sister?
Did I give her the address?"
"Why, had you forgotten?"
"No, I remember."
"I had heard my father speak of you... only I did not know your name, and he did not know it.
And now I came... and as I had learnt your name, I asked to-day, 'Where does Mr. Raskolnikov live?'
I did not know you had only a room too....
Good-bye, I will tell Katerina Ivanovna."