She awaited him, thinking with a sinking heart of the words in which she would tell him everything and of the expressions of his love which would comfort her. The servant returned with the reply that he had a visitor, but would come up at once, and wished to know whether he might bring with him Prince Yashvin, who had just arrived in Petersburg.
Elküldött hozzá avval a kéréssel, hogy jöjjön azonnal; szorongó szívvel várta őt, miközben azokon a szavakon törte a fejét, a melyekkel majd elmond neki mindent, s a szerelemnek azokon a kifejezésein, a melyekkel őt majd megvígasztalja.