Brothers Karamazov Book IX Chapter V

In which Dmitri Karamazov relates his anguished account of that fateful night to the officials, insisting upon his innocence with a mixture of defiance and despair, while revealing secret signals known only to himself, his father, and the valet, which perplex and provoke his interrogators. Throughout this solemn and tense exchange, the shadow of suspicion and unspoken mysteries lingers, as the probing questions narrow upon money, motives, and the deepest wounds of honour and conscience.