Levin saw that he still hoped.

Seizing the first moment of silence, Levin got up, anxious to escape, if only for an instant, from his agonizing emotion, and said that he would go and fetch his wife.

"Very well, and I'll tell her to tidy up here.

It's dirty and stinking here, I expect.

Marya! clear up the room," the sick man said with effort.