Raskolnikov is summoned to the police office over a debt, not the murders, but the ordinary summons becomes almost unbearable. When officials begin discussing Alyona Ivanovna's murder, his body betrays him and he faints.
Part II, Chapter VI
The scene feeds Zametov's suspicion and makes the restaurant conversation another version of the same dangerous nearness to confession.
Part VI, Chapter VIII
Raskolnikov's final confession returns him to the same bureaucratic world that first terrified him after the crime.
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