everything, and then to wake up and begin life anew...

“Poor girl!” he said, looking at the empty corner where she had sat — ”She will come to herself and weep, and then her mother will find out... She will give her a beating, a horrible, shameful beating and then maybe, turn her out of doors... And even if she does not, the Darya Frantsovnas will get wind of it, and the girl will soon be slipping out on the sly here and there. Then there will be the hospital directly (that’s always the luck of those girls with respectable mothers, who go wrong on the sly) and then... again the hospital... drink... the taverns... and more hospital, in two or three years — a wreck, and her life over at eighteen or nineteen... Have not I seen cases like that? And how have they been brought to it?