When the Music Stops — The Brothers Karamazov

After the Poles are locked out, Mokroe becomes an orgy: Grushenka demands wine and dancing while Mitya pours money at peasants and remembers Andrey. On the balcony he almost shoots himself, then runs back to her; she weeps over the gander-officer, names Mitya her falcon, and they pledge love, Katya’s money, even Siberia. Delirious, she dances, quotes Alyosha’s onion, and Mitya knocks for the Poles to watch. He carries her to the bed; guilt slips out about Katya’s stolen sum; bells and snow drift through her sleep. Curtains part: police captain, prosecutor, investigating lawyer. Mitya cries that he understands; he is charged with murdering Fyodor Pavlovitch as Book IX begins.