Anna lifted the wasted, thin hand of Dolly, kissed it and said: "But, Dolly, what's to be done, what's to be done? How is it best to act in this awful position--that's what you must think of.
" "All's over, and there's nothing more," said Dolly.
" And the worst of all is, you see, that I can't cast him off: there are the children, I am tied.