however, one and all of the party realized that something important had happened, and that, perhaps fortunately enough, something which had hitherto been enveloped in the obscurity of guess-work had now begun to come forth a little from the mists. in spite of prince s.’s assurances and explanations, evgenie pavlovitch’s real character and position were at last coming to light. he was publicly convicted of intimacy with "that creature." so thought lizabetha prokofievna and her two elder daughters.