' Indeed and it is a strange thing; why need you worry about the peasants?" "I'm not worrying about them; I'm doing it for my own good.

" Agafea Mihalovna knew every detail of Levin's plans for his land.

Levin often put his views before her in all their complexity, and not uncommonly he argued with her and did not agree with her comments.

But on this occasion she entirely misinterpreted what he had said.

"Of one's soul's salvation we all know and must think before all else," she said with a sigh.