" "I will only say one thing more: you know that I am speaking of my sister, whom I love as I love my own children.

I don't say she cared for you, all I meant to say is that her refusal at that moment proves nothing.

" "I don't know!" said Levin, jumping up.

" If you only knew how you are hurting me.

It's just as if a child of yours were dead, and they were to say to you: He would have been like this and like that, and he might have lived, and how happy you would have been in him.