He did not look her in the face, and did not care to see that she in her condition was trembling all over, and had a piteous, crushed look.

"I...I want to say that we can't go on like this; that this is misery..." she said.

"The servants are here at the sideboard," he said angrily; "don't make a scene.

" "Well, let's go in here!" They were standing in the passage.

Kitty would have gone into the next room, but there the English governess was giving Tanya a lesson.