Think of her! What will become of her, if you cast her off?" "I have thought, Darya Alexandrovna, I have thought a great deal," said Alexey Alexandrovitch.

His face turned red in patches, and his dim eyes looked straight before him.

Darya Alexandrovna at that moment pitied him with all her heart.

" That was what I did indeed when she herself made known to me my humiliation; I left everything as of old.