The question of how to write to Nicholas, and whether she ought to write, tormented her.

Now that he was already an officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on himself? "I don't know.

I think if he writes, I will write too," she said, blushing.

"And you won't feel ashamed to write to him?" Sonya smiled.

"No.