Part One
Chapter XII

Kolya led the Prince to a cafe to visit Ardalion Alexandrovich.
Prince wants to know more about Nastasya Filippovna...and asks the General if he's been to her place. Several times.
General talks about his time during the Crimean War and drunkenly reminisces about his first meeting with the Prince.
Prince asks General to take him to Nastasya's birthday party and he agrees, but first takes him to the house of Captain Terentev's wife, who complains about her dead husband. General donates her the Prince's 25 ruble bill. General then falls asleep. Kolya, in his place, offers to take the Prince to Nastasya's, but wants to introduce him to Ippolit first, who is a consumptive and may die soon. Will the Prince try to heal him?
Kolya says of Nastasya's party: "There are terribly few honest people here, so that there's nobody at all to respect." Shows why he likes the Prince so much.
Kolya refers to a case in the newspapers regarding 19 year old Moscow University student names Danilov who was tried for murder of the pawnbroker Popov and his maidservant in 1866, which must have struck Dostoevsky because it mirrored Crime and Punishment. The student's father advised him to stop at nothing to achieve his ends.
Prince and Kolya admit that they like each other and consider getting a flat together with Ippolit.