She asked him about the races.

He answered her questions, and, seeing that she was agitated, trying to calm her, he began telling her in the simplest tone the details of his preparations for the races.

"Tell him or not tell him?" she thought, looking into his quiet, affectionate eyes.

" He is so happy, so absorbed in his races that he won't understand as he ought, he won't understand all the gravity of this fact to us.