Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what.

He felt it awkward to attract everyone's attention and to be considered a lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris possessed of a Helen.

" But no doubt it always is and must be so!" he consoled himself.

" And besides, what have I done to bring it about? How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasili.

Then there was nothing.