"But she has a daughter: no doubt she's busy looking after her?" said Levin.

"I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, _une couveuse,_" said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

" If she's occupied, it must be with her children.

No, she brings her up capitally, I believe, but one doesn't hear about her.

She's busy, in the first place, with what she writes.