Are You Ill or Not?

He slept in extraordinarily long time and without dreaming. Nastasya, coming into his room at ten o'clock the next morning, had difficulty in rousing him. He made no reply when she asked if he was ill or not. She came in again at two o'clock with soup. After his meal, he stretched himself on the sofa again but now he could not sleep. His heart kept beating and thumping so that he could hardly breathe. It seemed to him strange and monstrous that he could have slept in such forgetfulness from the previous day and had done nothing yet. And meanwhile, perhaps it had struck six, and his drowsiness and stupefaction were