The chief thing I shouldn't like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself.

I have the right to do that, haven't I? But it is a big subject, and we'll talk over everything properly later.

Now I'll go and dress and send a maid to you.

" Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna, with a good housewife's eye, scanned her room.