I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself.

I have the right to do that, haven't I? But it is a big subject, and we'll talk over everything properly later.

Now I'll go and dress and send a maid to you.

" Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna, with a good housewife's eye, scanned her room.

All she had seen in entering the house and walking through it, and all she saw now in her room, gave her an impression of wealth and sumptuousness and of that modern European luxury of which she had only read in English novels, but had never seen in Russia and in the country.