then seeing that radomski was laughing, he began to laugh himself, nudged colia, who was sitting beside him, with his elbow, and again asked what time it was. he even pulled colia’s silver watch out of his hand, and looked at it eagerly. then, as if he had forgotten everything, he stretched himself out on the sofa, put his hands behind his head, and looked up at the sky. after a minute or two he got up and came back to the table to listen to lebedeff’s outpourings, as the latter passionately commentated on evgenie pavlovitch’s paradox.