Furthermore, when Nikolay Sergeitch,the master of the house, admitted that he was the one who stole the brooch, she was even more angry that he had gone along with accusing her and searching all the servants when he knew they hadn't done it in the first place! Nikolay tries to persuade Mashenka to stay, he says, "there won't be a human face left in the house." Here, he is referring to how she still shows emotions. He had commented earlier about how he "like[s] people who still can feel resentment, contempt, and so on." He says to her, "I could sit here forever and look at your indignant face...It’s all right for you, but for me— wo-o-o-e!…I can’t stir a step out of this cellar. I’d go off to one of our estates, but in every one of them there are some of my wife’s rascals … stewards, experts, damn them all! They mortgage and remortgage.… You mustn’t catch fish, must keep off the grass, mustn’t break the trees.” None of these people shows any emotion Nikolay thinks, he has so many restrictions and nothing real, nor heart-felt to interact with.