" You know that from the very day you first came to Otradnoe I have loved you," she cried, quite convinced that she spoke the truth.

"In a year you will learn to know yourself....

" "A whole year!" Natasha repeated suddenly, only now realizing that the marriage was to be postponed for a year.

" But why a year? Why a year?..." Prince Andrew began to explain to her the reasons for this delay.

Natasha did not hear him.