and immediately was in a hurry to get off, and again plunged into the intricate question of the due order of the various carriages.

`Come, I'll tell you how we'll manage: you drive in our carriage to fetch him, and Sergei Ivanovich, if he'll be so good, will drive there and then send his carriage.'

`Of course; I shall be delighted.'

`We'll come on directly with him. Are your things sent off?' asked Stepan Arkadyevich.

`Yes,' answered Levin, and he told Kouzma to lay out his clothes for him to dress.