"Well, what a shame not to have let us know! Been here long? I was at Dussot's yesterday and saw 'Karenin' on the visitors' list, but it never entered my head that it was you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, sticking his head in at the window of the carriage, "or I should have looked you up.

I am glad to see you!" he said, knocking one foot against the other to shake the snow off.

"What a shame of you not to let us know!" he repeated.