) "Now I want to begin a suit against him.

What do you advise? Kamerovsky, look after the coffee; it's boiling over.

You see, I'm engrossed with business! I want a lawsuit, because I must have my property.

Do you understand the folly of it, that on the pretext of my being unfaithful to him," she said contemptuously, "he wants to get the benefit of my fortune.

" Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.