"What is this word?" he said, pointing to the n that stood for _never_.

"It means _never_," she said; "but that's not true!" He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk, and stood up.

She wrote, _t, i, c, n, a, d_.

Dolly was completely comforted in the depression caused by her conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch when she caught sight of the two figures: Kitty with the chalk in her hand, with a shy and happy smile looking upwards at Levin, and his handsome figure bending over the table with glowing eyes fastened one minute on the table and the next on her.

He was suddenly radiant: he had understood.