"Is she religious ?" "Yes, Fedya, very much so.

More than you and I, Fedya." "Aren't you religious then ?" lisped Nastasya Karpovna.

"To-day, you have not been to the early service, but you are going to the late." "No, not at all; you will go alone; I have grown too lazy, my dear," relied Marfa Timofyevna.

"Already I am indulging myself with tea." She addressed Nastasya Karpovna in the singular, though she treated her as an equal.

She was not a Pestov for nothing: three Pestovs had been on the death-list of Ivan the Terrible, Marfa Timofyevna was well aware of the fact.
"Tell me please," began Lavretsky again, "Marya Dmitrievna has just been talking to me about this--what's his name?
Panshin.