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But it’s high time for me to get back to my story. * * * I was glad to see Pasinkov; but when I recalled what I had done the day before, I felt unutterably ashamed, and I hurriedly turned away to the wall again. After a brief pause, Yakov asked me if I were unwell. ‘I’m quite well,’ I answered through my teeth; ‘only my head aches.’ Yakov made no reply, and took up a book. More than an hour passed by; I was just coming to the point of confessing everything to Yakov … suddenly there was a ring at the outer bell of my flat. The door on to the stairs was opened…. I listened…. Asanov was asking my servant if I were at home. Pasinkov got up; he did not care for Asanov, and telling me in a whisper that he would go and lie down on my bed, he went into my bedroom. A minute later Asanov ente