"what did he do there? what did he say?" "they couldn’t tell me themselves; they couldn’t make head or tail of it; but he frightened them all. he came to see the general, who was not at home; so he asked for lizabetha prokofievna. first of all, he begged her for some place, or situation, for work of some kind, and then he began to complain about us, about me and my husband, and you, especially you; he said a lot of things."