"Then you've taken a good constitutional?" "Splendid!" "Well, and how was the old woman? I hope it's not typhus?" "Typhus it is not, but it's taking a bad turn.

" "What a pity!" said Anna, and having thus paid the dues of civility to her domestic circle, she turned to her own friends.

"It would be a hard task, though, to construct a machine from your description, Anna Arkadyevna," Sviazhsky said jestingly.

"Oh, no, why so?" said Anna with a smile that betrayed that she knew there was something charming in her disquisitions upon the machine that had been noticed by Sviazhsky.