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She was just then expecting the `` message , '' and was much relieved that Mitya had not been to see her that day or the day before . She hoped that `` please God he wo n't come till I 'm gone away , '' and he suddenly burst in on her . The rest we know already . To get him off her hands she suggested at once that he should walk with her to Samsonov 's , where she said she absolutely must go `` to settle his accounts , '' and when Mitya accompanied her at once , she said good‐by to him at the gate , making him promise to come at twelve o'clock to take her home again . Mitya , too , was delighted at this arrangement . If she was sitting at Samsonov 's she could not be going to Fyodor Pavlovitch 's , `` if only she 's not lying , '' he added at once . But he thought she was not lying from what he saw .