What business had I to interfere with outsiders? And so it's come about that I'm a cause of quarrel, and that I've done what nobody asked me to do.

Because it was all a sham! a sham! a sham!..." "A sham! with what object?" said Varenka gently.

"Oh, it's so idiotic! so hateful! There was no need whatever for me....

Nothing but sham!" she said, opening and shutting the parasol.

"But with what object?" "To seem better to people, to myself, to God; to deceive everyone.