Again, note how the characters all reveal themselves by their unconscious behaviour. On the night of Rudin's unexpected arrival, while Bassistoff sits up, pouring out his soul in an eloquent letter to a friend, and Natalya cannot sleep for thinking of Rudin's glowing eloquence, "Pandalevsky went to bed, and as he took off his daintily embroidered braces, he said aloud, 'A very smart fellow,' and suddenly, looking harshly at his page, ordered him out of the room." By this little revelation of his mean spirit the young Jew prepares us for his furtive suspicion of Rudin, and for his playing the spy subsequently. By a word, a gesture, a look, psychologically exact, Turgenev secures thus in a sentence effects which it takes his rivals a paragraph or a page to make clear to us. Thus his scenes always appeal by their aesthetic ease and grace. Remark again how swift, precise and final is Turgenev's exploration of Rudin's character. Tired of wandering, Rudin, as Darya Mihailovna's guest, is glad to have found a congenial circle, perhaps indeed a home, but while every one seems to listen eagerly to him, and he lays down the law to the household, a cold undercurrent of criticism is already felt threatening his position. One of the neighbours, Lezhnyov, had been at college with Rudin in youth, and from his talk about their past relations one learns why Rudin, despite his genius, has not succeeded in life. He is a theorist and he has never really understood human nature. So much so is this indeed that Rudin does not realize in time that Natalya, this girl "of an ardent, true and passionate nature," has fallen in love with him, and exalts him as her spiritual teacher. And when Rudin's eyes are opened this fatal flaw in his character is seen. He lives only for his ideas and for his audience; his great, his sole power lies in the magic of his stimulating, flowing oratory. He is a master of words, but he cannot act. Lezhnyov is right in declaring that Rudin in his relations with others, even in his love affairs, "only needs a fresh opportunity of speechifying and giving vent to his fine talk, and that's what he can't live without." Rudin, carried away by the discovery of Natalya's love, pretends and simulates love for her, but his "passion" is shown to be hollow when the young girl comes to warn him that Pandalevsky, spying on them, has betrayed their secret meetings to her mother, who is angry and jealous that Rudin should be paying court to her daughter. Rudin is in consternation at the news. He has been so intent on his eloquent feelings that he has not faced the practical difficulties. And he has made no plans to face the future. But let us quote the scene: "'And what advice can I give you, Natalya Alexyevna?' "'What advice? You are a man; I am used to trusting to you. I shall trust you to the end. Tell me, what are your plans?' "'My plans.... Your mother will certainly turn me out of the house.'