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The Awakening of Lazarus 123come tomorrow, you’ll hear of it all, and then remember thesewords. And some day later on, in years to come, you’ll understandperhaps what they meant. If I come tomorrow, I’ll tell youwho killed Lizaveta…Goodbye.”Sonia started with terror.“Why, do you know who killed her?” she asked, chilled withhorror, looking wildly at him.“I know and will tell…you, only you. I have chosen you out.I’m not coming to you to ask forgiveness, but simply to tell you.I chose you out long ago to hear this, when your father talked ofyou, and when Lizaveta was alive I thought of it. Goodbye, don’tshake hands. Tomorrow!”He went out. Sonia gazed at him as at a madman. But sheherself was like one insane and felt it. Her head was going round.“Good heavens, how does he know who killed Lizaveta? Whatdid those words mean? It’s awful!” But at the same time the ideadid not enter her head, not for a moment ! “Oh he must be terriblyunhappy!…He has abandoned his mother and sister…Whatfor? What has happened? And what had he in his mind? Whatdid he say to her? He had kissed her feet and said…said (yes, hehad said it clearly) that he could not live without her…Oh, mercifulheavens!”Sonia spent the whole night feverish and delirious. Shejumped up from time to time, wept and wrung her hands, thensank again into feverish sleep and dreamt of Polenka, KaterinaIvanovna, and Lizaveta, of reading the gospel and of him…himwith pale face, with burning eyes…kissing her feet, weeping.