I know you well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes duties on you, and you must be a man." Pierre was silent.
"Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised me only the day before yesterday not to forget Boris.

But he had no time.

I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's wish ?" Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in silence at Princess Anna Mikhaylovna.

After her talk with Pierre, Anna Mikhaylovna returned to the Rostovs' and went to bed.

On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death.