"Do you remember me?" asked Boris quietly with a pleasant smile.

"I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not well.

" "Yes, it seems he is ill.

People are always disturbing him," answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was.

Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face.