Why not possible?" "No! do you really think it's possible? No, tell me all you think! Oh, but if...if refusal's in store for me!... Indeed I feel sure..." "Why should you think that?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling at his excitement.

"It seems so to me sometimes.

That will be awful for me, and for her too.

" "Oh, well, anyway there's nothing awful in it for a girl.

Every girl's proud of an offer.