He asks Dmitri about Rakitin's visit and is told that the seminarian hopes to write an article proving that Dmitri is the victim of an unhappy environment and that he could not help killing his father. When Alyosha arrives at the prison where Dmitri is being held, he notices that Rakitin, a seminarian acquaintance, is leaving. After he leaves, she does a curious thing: she intentionally slams the door on her fingers and calls herself a wretch. The young girl becomes hysterical as she confesses her secret thoughts and then suddenly sends Alyosha away. She continuously feels possessed with a terrible urge to destroy. She tells him that she longs to be punished and castigated by God and says that she regularly prays to suffer torture, for she can no longer respect anything or anyone. On his way to question Dmitri, Alyosha stops and visits Lise, whom he finds feverish and excited. Again, Alyosha promises to help a human being in trouble. She pleads with Alyosha to discover what the secret is. What most concerns her, however, is that Dmitri and Ivan are concealing a secret from her. In addition, she fears that Dmitri is once again falling in love with Katerina Ivanova.

Now, as she begins to recover physically, there are also signs of a major spiritual recovery, of a complete 'spiritual transformation in her.' Also, there is another change: she and Alyosha have become fast friends, and she confides to him that she and Dmitri have quarreled again. During the two months since Dmitri was arrested, Grushenka has been ill.

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