"Oh, we all know you can do without sleep, and keep other people up too," Dolly said to her husband, with that faint note of irony in her voice which she almost always had now with her husband.

"But to my thinking, it's time for bed now....

I'm going, I don't want supper.

" "No, do stay a little, Dolly," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, going round to her side behind the table where they were having supper.