'Ah, you're afraid of me ?' she said.
'Yes, you know you're as cross as your mother.' 'Spend more of your time with Eroshka; that will make the girls love you!' And she smiled, looking straight and close into his eyes.
He did not know what to reply.

'And if I were to come to see you--' he let fall.
'That would be a different matter,' she replied, tossing her head.
At that moment Beletski pushed the door open, and Maryanka sprang away from Olenin and in doing so her thigh struck his leg.
'It's all nonsense what I have been thinking about--love and self-sacrifice and Lukashka.

Happiness is the one thing.

He who is happy is right,' flashed through Olenin's mind, and with a strength unexpected to himself he seized and kissed the beautiful Maryanka on her temple and her cheek.

Maryanka was not angry, but only burst into a loud laugh and ran out to the other girls.
That was the end of the party.