They went out and sat down in the same chairs, again facing one another.
So this is settling all their symbolism then. Myshkin’s ‘shadow,’ the constant omnipresence of torment, the constant fear of murder; in every way his opposite. They sit face to face, knees touching, as they were in the beginning of the novel; but now beside the corpse of the woman they both loved and caused all these passions to arise in both of them.
