A crime you're ashamed of admitting? Oh, my. [ but he's not going to push, he suspects it might be something silly or a lie? or maybe something like fyodor's: ambiguous to most unsuspecting eyes that might not know him well. ] What else do you want to know?

This place is not purgatory as far as I'm aware but my initial hypothesis of this world being one of those created by the book doesn't ring true either.