I am very amiable and have a caustic wit," continued Prince Andrew, "and at Anna Pavlovna's they listen to me.

And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women... If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right.

Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything--that's what women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there's nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don't marry, my dear fellow; don't marry!" concluded Prince Andrew.