But these questions of the present were succeeded by questions of the immediate future.

She began thinking how she had to get a new flat in Moscow for the coming winter, to renew the drawing room furniture, and to make her elder girl a cloak.

Then questions of the more remote future occurred to her: how she was to place her children in the world.

"The girls are all right," she thought; "but the boys?" "It's very well that I'm teaching Grisha, but of course that's only because I am free myself now, I'm not with child.

Stiva, of course, there's no counting on.