And the asseverations of his love, which seemed to him so vulgar that he was ashamed to utter them, she drank in eagerly, and gradually became calmer.

The next day, completely reconciled, they left for the country.

Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children at Pokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin's.

The house on her own estate was quite in ruins, and Levin and his wife had persuaded her to spend the summer with them.