He treated his aunt and sister very shabbily till his sudden death cut short his career.

Marya Dmitrievna inherited Pokrovskoe, but she did not live there long.

Two years after her marriage with Kalitin, who succeeded in winning her heart in a few days, Pokrovskoe was exchanged for another estate, which yielded a much larger income, but was utterly unattractive and had no house.

At the same time Kalitin took a house in the town of O----, in which he and his wife took up their permanent abode.

There was a large garden round the house, which on one side looked out upon the open country away from the town.
"And so," decided Kalitin, who had a great distaste for the quiet of country life, "there would be no need for them to be dragging themselves off into the country." In her heart Marya Dmitrievna more than once regretted her pretty Pokrovskoe, with its babbling brook, its wide meadows, and green copses; but she never opposed her husband in anything and had the greatest veneration for his wisdom and knowledge of the world.