How could she be?
On the contrary, she's been expecting you all the evening, and as soon as she heard you were coming she began making her toilet." He was just twisting his mouth into a jocose smile, but he instantly checked himself.
"How is she, on the whole ?" asked Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, frowning.
"On the whole?
You know that yourself, sir." He shrugged his shoulders commiseratingly.

"But just now...

just now she's telling her fortune with cards...." "Very good.

Later on.

First of all I must finish with you." Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch settled himself in a chair.