It was the mechanician, whom Levin had totally forgotten.

The mechanician, bowing low, said something to Veslovsky, then clambered into the trap, and they drove off together.

Stepan Arkadyevitch and the princess were much upset by Levin's action.

And he himself felt not only in the highest degree _ridicule_, but also utterly guilty and disgraced.

But remembering what sufferings he and his wife had been through, when he asked himself how he should act another time, he answered that he should do just the same again.