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102 The Gospel in Dostoyevskyfound in the corner of the courtyard the entrance to the dark andnarrow staircase, he mounted to the second floor and came outonto a gallery that ran round the whole second story over theyard. While he was wandering in the darkness, uncertain whereto turn for Kapernaumov’s door, a door opened three paces fromhim; he mechanically took hold of it.“Who is there?” a woman’s voice asked uneasily.“It’s I – come to see you,” answered Raskolnikov, and he walkedinto the tiny entry.On a broken chair stood a candle in a battered coppercandle stick.“It’s you! Good heavens!” cried Sonia weakly, and she stoodrooted to the spot.“Which is your room? This way?” and Raskolnikov, trying notto look at her, hastened in.A minute later Sonia too came in with the candle, put downthe candlestick and, completely disconcerted, stood before himindescribably agitated and apparently frightened by his unexpectedvisit. The color rushed suddenly to her pale face and tearscame into her eyes…She felt sick and ashamed and happy, too…Raskolnikov turned away quickly and sat on a chair by the table.He scanned the room in a glance.It was a large but exceedingly low-pitched room, the only onelet by the Kapernaumovs, whose rooms were beyond a closeddoor in the wall on the left. On the opposite side in the righthandwall was another door, always kept locked. That led to thenext flat, which formed a separate lodging. Sonia’s room lookedlike a barn; it was a very irregular quadrangle and this gave it agrotesque appearance. A wall with three windows looking outonto the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acuteangle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light. The