“Wait. For the havoc you wreaked, which made it impossible for me to see my patients. It’s intolerable. A man jumps around the whole house like a Neanderthal, breaks faucets. Who killed Mme. Polasikher’s cat? Who.. “And the other day, Sharikov, you bit a lady on the stairs,” Bormenthal hastened to add. “You are . . .” growled Philip Philippovich. “She banged me on the jaw,” squealed Sharikov. “It’s my jaw, not the government’s !”

