"Why didn't you turn up at the Red Theater yesterday? Numerova wasn't at all bad.

Where were you?" "I was late at the Tverskoys'," said Vronsky.

"Ah!" responded Yashvin.

Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.