As horses were also required for the Princess, who was leaving, and for the midwife, it was inconvenient to Levin; but he could not be so inhospitable as to allow Dolly to hire horses while staying with him. Besides, he knew that the twenty roubles she would have had to pay for the journey were of importance to her, and he felt her distressing financial embarrassments as if they had been his own.
In quel momento, in cui i cavalli servivano e per la principessa che partiva e per la levatrice, la cosa era stata difficile per Levin, ma per dovere di ospitalità egli non poteva permettere a Dar’ja Aleksandrovna di noleggiare i cavalli, inoltre, sapeva che i venti rubli che le avrebbero chiesto per quel viaggio avevano grande peso per lei, e le faccende finanziarie di Dar’ja Aleksandrovna, così dissestate, erano sentite dai Levin come loro proprie.