FEDYA. Well, since you're not ashamed. My rank, graduate of the University of Moscow; age 40; religion orthodox. What else? MAGISTRATE. Did Victor Karenin and Elizaveta Andreyevna know you were alive when you left your clothes on the bank of the river and disappeared? FEDYA. Of course not. I really wished to commit suicide. But-- however, why should I tell you? The fact's enough. They knew nothing of it. MAGISTRATE. You gave a somewhat different account to the police officer. How do you explain that? FEDYA. Which police officer? Oh yes, the one who arrested me in that dive. I was drunk, and I lied to him--about what, I don't remember. But I'm not drunk now and I'm telling you the whole truth. They knew nothing; they thought I was dead, and I was glad of it. Everything would have stayed all right except for that damned beast Artimiev. So if any one's guilty, it's I. MAGISTRATE. I perceive you wish to be generous. Unfortunately the law demands the truth. Come, why did you receive money from them? [FEDYA is silent. Why don't you answer me? Do you realize that it will be stated in your deposition that the accused refused to answer these questions, and that will harm (he includes LISA and VICTOR in a gesture) all of you? [FEDYA remains silent. Aren't you ashamed of your stubborn refusal to aid these others and yourself by telling the entire truth? FEDYA (breaking out passionately). The truth--Oh, God! what do you know about the truth? Your business is crawling up into a little power, that you may use it by tantalizing, morally and physically, people a thousand times better than you.... You sit there in your smug authority torturing people. MAGISTRATE. I must ask you---- FEDYA (interrupts him). Don't ask me for I'll speak as I feel. (Turning to CLERK.) And you write it down. So for once some human words will get into a deposition. [Raising his voice, which ascends to a climax during this speech. There were three human beings alive: I, he, and she. [He turns to his wife with a gesture indicating his love for her. He pauses, then proceeds.