But she doesn't love Panshin either--a poor consolation!" Lavretsky went back to Vassilyevskoe, but he could not get through four days there--so dull it seemed to him.

He was also in agonies of suspense; the news announced by M.Jules required confirmation, and he had received no letters of any kind.

He returned to the town and spent an evening at the Kalitins'.

He could easily see that Marya Dmitrievna had to been set against him; but he succeeded in softening her a little, by losing fifteen roubles to her at picquet, and he spent nearly half an hour almost alone with Lisa in spite of the fact that her mother had advised her the previous evening not to be too intimate with a man qui a un si grand ridicule.

He found a change in her; she had become, as it were, more thoughtful.