“ What are you staring at me like that for?” he muttered. “Sit down.”
The prince took a chair.
“ Parfen,” he said, “tell me honestly, did you know that I was coming to Petersburg or no?”
“ Oh, I supposed you were coming,” the other replied, smiling sarcastically, “and I was right in my supposition, you see; but how was I to know that you would come today? ”
A certain strangeness and impatience in his manner impressed the prince very forcibly.
“ And if you had known that I was coming today, why be so irritated about it?” he asked, in quiet surprise.
“ Why did you ask me?”
“ Because when I jumped out of the train this morning, two eyes glared at me just as yours did a moment since.”
“ Ha! and whose eyes may they have been?” said Rogojin, suspiciously. It seemed to the p
