" Lord forgive him! My dear, what does it mean?..." she asked, turning to Princess Mary.

She got up and, almost crying, began to arrange her wallet.

She evidently felt frightened and ashamed to have accepted charity in a house where such things could be said, and was at the same time sorry to have now to forgo the charity of this house.

"Now, why need you do it?" said Princess Mary.

" Why did you come to me?..." "Come, Pelageya, I was joking," said Pierre.