Snegiryov opened the door hurriedly and called to his wife with whom he had so cruelly quarreled just before:
He had told me the main idea three days before, and we began quarreling about it at once and quarreled for three days.
Now, if you remember the first part of this story, you will recall that Zidoc quarreled with the old enchanter over the right spell for destroying castles.
We quarreled because, when he told me that if Dmitri Fyodorovitch were convicted he would escape abroad with that creature, I felt furious at once--I can't tell you why, I don't know myself why....