putting on an air of simplicity, asked permission to put a few

more questions, and, having received it, bending his head over

his embroidered collar, he said: "I should like to know how long

the prisoner remained in the merchant Smelkoff's room."

Maslova again seemed frightened, and she again looked anxiously

from the public prosecutor to the president, and said hurriedly:

"Yes, but does the prisoner remember if she went anywhere else in

the lodging-house after she left Smelkoff?"