" "I'm a nice person! Why, that's just what I came for! You simply must come to dinner with us today.

Your brother's coming, and Karenin, my brother-in-law.

" "You don't mean to say he's here?" said Levin, and he wanted to inquire about Kitty.

He had heard at the beginning of the winter that she was at Petersburg with her sister, the wife of the diplomat, and he did not know whether she had come back or not; but he changed his mind and did not ask.