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Are things to go on like this ? '' and so saying he waved his arms . FROM THE LARGE BALLROOM of Skvoreshniki -LRB- the room in which the last interview with Varvara Petrovna and Stepan Trofimovitch had taken place -RRB- the fire could be plainly seen . At daybreak , soon after five in the morning , Liza was standing at the farthest window on the right looking intently at the fading glow . She was alone in the room . She was wearing the dress she had worn the day before at the matinée -- a very smart light green dress covered with lace , but crushed and put on carelessly and with haste . Suddenly noticing that some of the hooks were undone in front she flushed , hurriedly set it right , snatched up from a chair the red shawl she had flung down when she came in the day before , and put it round her neck .