Kitty returned home to Russia cured.

She was not so gay and thoughtless as before, but she was serene.

Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother.

In his judgment the best sort of life was a country life.