" The great thing is that as I work I want to have a conviction that what I am doing will not die with me, that I shall have heirs to come after me,--and this I have not.

Conceive the position of a man who knows that his children, the children of the woman he loves, will not be his, but will belong to someone who hates them and cares nothing about them! It is awful!" He paused, evidently much moved.

"Yes, indeed, I see that.

But what can Anna do?" queried Darya Alexandrovna.