" "Oh, I shall understand," said Landau, with the same smile, and he closed his eyes.

Alexey Alexandrovitch and Lidia Ivanovna exchanged meaningful glances, and the reading began.

Stepan Arkadyevitch felt completely nonplussed by the strange talk which he was hearing for the first time.

The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation.