But it won't do, because you see, if you say that--if you consider yourself bound by your promise--it will seem as if she had not meant it seriously.

It makes it as if you were marrying her because you must, and that wouldn't do at all.

" Rostov saw that it had been well considered by them.

Sonya had already struck him by her beauty on the preceding day.

Today, when he had caught a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely.