When Anna returned with the album, he was already gone, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was telling them that he had called to inquire about the dinner they were giving next day to a celebrity who had just arrived.

" And nothing would induce him to come up.

What a queer fellow he is!" added Stepan Arkadyevitch.

Kitty blushed.

She thought that she was the only person who knew why he had come, and why he would not come up.