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They began talking about Lizaveta. The student spoke about her

with a peculiar relish and was continually laughing and the

officer listened with great interest and asked him to send

Lizaveta to do some mending for him. Raskolnikov did not miss a

word and learned everything about her. Lizaveta was younger than

the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of a

different mother. She was thirty-five. She worked day and night

for her sister, and besides doing the cooking and the washing,

she did sewing and worked as a charwoman and gave her sister all

she earned. She did not dare to accept an order or job of any

kind without her sister's permission. The old woman had already

made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she

would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so

on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of

N----, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity.