was wrong, perhaps, in his view of the matter, but he was somewhere near the truth, and was right in so far as that he understood there to be an intrigue of some sort going on. perhaps prince s. saw it all more clearly than he had allowed his hearers to understand. at all events, nothing could be plainer than that he and adelaida had come for the express purpose of obtaining explanations, and that they suspected him of being concerned in the affair. and if all this were so, then she must have some terrible object in view! what was it? there was no stopping her, as muishkin knew from experience, in the performance of anything she had set her mind on! "oh, she is mad, mad!" thought the poor prince.