`No, she said nothing to me either of the one or the other; she's too proud. But I know it's all on account of this...'

`Yes, but suppose she has refused Levin - and she wouldn't have refused him if it hadn't been for the other, I know. And then, this fellow has deceived her so horribly.'

It was too frightful for the Princess to think how much at fault she was before her daughter, and she grew angry.

`Oh, now I really understand nothing! Nowadays everybody thinks to live after his own way; a mother isn't told a thing, and then you have...'

`Maman, I'll go to her.'

`Do. Am I forbidding you?'