"Yes, pity on her.

If you had seen her as I have!--I have been spending all the winter with her--you would have pity on her.

Her position is awful, simply awful!" "I had imagined," answered Alexey Alexandrovitch in a higher, almost shrill voice, "that Anna Arkadyevna had everything she had desired for herself.

" "Oh, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for heaven's sake, don't let us indulge in recriminations! What is past is past, and you know what she wants and is waiting for--divorce.

" "But I believe Anna Arkadyevna refuses a divorce, if I make it a condition to leave me my son.