The two women let go of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise both began to cry and kissed again.

Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to cry.

Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting.
"Ah! my dear!...

Ah! Mary!" they suddenly exclaimed, and then laughed.
"I dreamed last night..."-- "You were not expecting us ?..." "Ah! Mary, you have got thinner ?..." "And you have grown stouter!..." "I knew the princess at once," put in Mademoiselle Bourienne.
"And I had no idea!..." exclaimed Princess Mary.

"Ah, Andrew, I did not see you." Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever.