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But it was some time before he found him out; from his former lodging he had moved to another, which it was not easy to discover; it was in the court at the back of a squalid stone house, built in the Petersburg style, between Arbaty Road and Povarsky Street. In vain Bersenyev wandered from one dirty staircase to another, in vain he called first to a doorkeeper, then to a passer-by.
'You condescended to say, your honour, he began, 'that your honour did not know where Elena Nikolaevna was pleased to go. I have information about that. 'What lies are you telling, idiot? 'That's as your honour likes, but T saw our young lady three days ago, as she was pleased to go into a house! 'Where? what? what house? 'In a house, near Povarsky. Not far from here.
The man asked him for a rouble and a quarter to drive to Povarsky Street, but he did not haggle, and without protest got submissively into the sledge. He still understood the difference of numbers, but money had ceased to have any value to him. At home Klimov was met by his aunt and his sister Katya, a girl of eighteen.
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