I have patience as well as other things." She was avoiding looking at him now.

She looked instead at her clasped hands.
"I wish I could make you understand," she said, in a low tone, "how impossible all this is.

In England and America I know that it is different.

There, marriages of a certain sort are freely made between different classes.

But in Russia these things are not thought of.
Supposing that all you said were true.