And it actually seemed to him that he always had seen it: he recalled incidents of their past life, in which he had never seen anything wrong before--now these incidents proved clearly that she had always been a corrupt woman.

" I made a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy.

It's not I that am to blame," he told himself, "but she.

But I have nothing to do with her.