The new doctor took up a stethoscope and sounded the patient, shook his head, prescribed medicine, and with extreme minuteness explained first how to take the medicine and then what diet was to be kept to.

He advised eggs, raw or hardly cooked, and seltzer water, with warm milk at a certain temperature.

When the doctor had gone away the sick man said something to his brother, of which Levin could distinguish only the last words: "Your Katya.

" By the expression with which he gazed at her, Levin saw that he was praising her.

He called indeed to Katya, as he called her.