You are not fair either to our good Rodion or, even more important, to his excellency the director. All right – he is not very bright, a little pompous, something of a scatterbrain – and he is not averse to delivering speeches – it’s all true, and I myself sometimes am not in the mood for him and, of course, cannot share with him my inmost thoughts, as I do with you, especially when my soul – pardon the expression – aches.
