It was plain that this "well?" referred to much that they both understood without naming.

The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her legs, looked directly at Prince Vasili with no sign of emotion in her prominent gray eyes.

Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons with a sigh.

This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long.