"I see that she is happy," he repeated, and the doubt whether she were happy sank more deeply into Darya Alexandrovna's mind.

" But can it last? Whether we have acted rightly or wrongly is another question, but the die is cast," he said, passing from Russian to French, "and we are bound together for life.

We are united by all the ties of love that we hold most sacred.

We have a child, we may have other children.

But the law and all the conditions of our position are such that thousands of complications arise which she does not see and does not want to see.