The princess looked at Koznishev without replying.

But the fact that Sergey Ivanovitch and the princess seemed anxious to get rid of him did not in the least disconcert Stepan Arkadyevitch.

Smiling, he stared at the feather in the princess's hat, and then about him as though he were going to pick something up.

Seeing a lady approaching with a collecting box, he beckoned her up and put in a five-rouble note.