But how is it she does not think of it herself?" said Darya Alexandrovna, and for some reason she suddenly at that point recalled Anna's strange new habit of half-closing her eyes.

And she remembered that Anna drooped her eyelids just when the deeper questions of life were touched upon.

" Just as though she half-shut her eyes to her own life, so as not to see everything," thought Dolly.

" Yes, indeed, for my own sake and for hers I will talk to her," Dolly said in reply to his look of gratitude.