His wife?... Only that day he had been talking to Prince Tchetchensky.

Prince Tchetchensky had a wife and family, grown-up pages in the corps,...and he had another illegitimate family of children also.

Though the first family was very nice too, Prince Tchetchensky felt happier in his second family; and he used to take his eldest son with him to his second family, and told Stepan Arkadyevitch that he thought it good for his son, enlarging his ideas.

What would have been said to that in Moscow? His children? In Petersburg children did not prevent their parents from enjoying life.

The children were brought up in schools, and there was no trace of the wild idea that prevailed in Moscow, in Lvov's household, for instance, that all the luxuries of life were for the children, while the parents have nothing but work and anxiety.