When he told Kitty of Stepan Arkadyevitch's advice that they should go abroad, he was much surprised that she did not agree to this, and had some definite requirements of her own in regard to their future.

She knew Levin had work he loved in the country.

She did not, as he saw, understand this work, she did not even care to understand it.

But that did not prevent her from regarding it as a matter of great importance.