"It is awful! awful!" he said.

At that moment in the next room a child began to cry; probably it had fallen down.

Darya Alexandrovna listened, and her face suddenly softened.

She seemed to be pulling herself together for a few seconds, as though she did not know where she was, and what she was doing, and getting up rapidly, she moved towards the door.

"Well, she loves my child," he thought, noticing the change of her face at the child's cry, "my child: how can she hate me?" "Dolly, one word more," he said, following her.