In a moment he had so kneaded together the social dough that the drawing room became very lively, and there was a merry buzz of voices.

Konstantin Levin was the only person who had not arrived.

But this was so much the better, as going into the dining room, Stepan Arkadyevitch found to his horror that the port and sherry had been procured from Depre, and not from Levy, and, directing that the coachman should be sent off as speedily as possible to Levy's, he was going back to the drawing room.

In the dining room he was met by Konstantin Levin.