"as for yesterday’s episode," continued gania, "of course it was pre-arranged." here he paused, as though expecting to be asked how he knew that. but the prince did not inquire. concerning evgenie pavlovitch, gania stated, without being asked, that he believed the former had not known nastasia philipovna in past years, but that he had probably been introduced to her by somebody in the park during these four days. as to the question of the iou’s she had spoken of, there might easily be something in that; for though evgenie was undoubtedly a man of wealth, yet certain of his affairs were equally undoubtedly in disorder. arrived at this interesting point, gania suddenly broke off, and said no more about nastasia’s prank of the previous evening.