She did not consider that his telegram was an answer to her telegram and that he had not yet received her note.

She pictured him to herself as talking calmly to his mother and Princess Sorokina and rejoicing at her sufferings.

"Yes, I must go quickly," she said, not knowing yet where she was going.

She longed to get away as quickly as possible from the feelings she had gone through in that awful house.

The servants, the walls, the things in that house--all aroused repulsion and hatred in her and lay like a weight upon her.