Succor and comfort you will find not in me, though I have come only to aid you if I can.

If I could take from off you all these petty, humiliating cares...I understand that a woman's word, a woman's superintendence is needed.

You will intrust it to me?" Silently and gratefully Alexey Alexandrovitch pressed her hand.

"Together we will take care of Seryozha.

Practical affairs are not my strong point.