After morning tea, Lemm played him his cantata, and after dinner, at Lavretsky's initiative, there was again talk of Lisa.

Lavretsky listened to him with attention and curiosity.
"What do you say, Christopher Fedoritch," he said at last, "you see everything here seems in good order now, and the garden is in full bloom, couldn't we invite her over here for a day with her mother and my old aunt...

eh?
Would you like it ?" Lemm bent his head over his plate.
"Invite her," he murmured, scarcely audibly.
"But Panshin isn't wanted ?" "No, he isn't wanted," rejoined the old man with an almost child-like smile.
Two days later Fedor Ivanitch set off to the town to see the Kalitins..