Next day Prince Vasili had arrived and settled in the count's house.

He sent for Pierre and said to him: "My dear fellow, if you are going to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that is all I have to say to you.

The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all.

" Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in his rooms upstairs.