Seeing that the woman in the doorway was about to go out he shouted to her: 'Wait, I told you,' and in the awkward and blundering manner familiar to Constantine, he again looked round at everybody, and began to tell his brother about Kritsky: how he had been expelled from the University because he had started a society to help the poorer students, and also Sunday schools, and how he had afterwards taught in an elementary school, and had been turned out from that too, and had then been tried on some charge or other.
Al ver a la mujer, de pie en la puerta y disponiéndose a salir, le gritó: «¡Te he dicho que esperes!». Y con la indecisión y la falta de elocuencia que Constantino conocía de siempre, comenzó, mirando a todos, a contar la historia de Krizky, su expulsión de la universidad por formar una sociedad de ayuda a los estudiantes pobres y a las escuelas dominicales, su ingreso como maestro en un colegio popular y cómo después se le procesó sin saber por qué.