Now I'm going to arrange my life quite differently," he went on.

" You know I got rid of that woman.

" "Marya Nikolaevna? Why, what for?" "Oh, she was a horrid woman! She caused me all sorts of worries.

" But he did not say what the annoyances were.

He could not say that he had cast off Marya Nikolaevna because the tea was weak, and, above all, because she would look after him, as though he were an invalid.