"But in what was I to blame?" he asked.

" In marrying her without loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.

" And he vividly recalled that moment after supper at Prince Vasili's, when he spoke those words he had found so difficult to utter: "I love you.

" "It all comes from that! Even then I felt it," he thought.

" I felt then that it was not so, that I had no right to do it.