Perhaps she was displeased with the expression of his face, or the way he smiled, particularly just after such an episode with Mavriky Nikolaevitch.

I must admit I saw nothing myself, but all the others declared they had, though they certainly could not all have seen it in such a crush, though perhaps some may have.

But I did not believe it at the time.

I remember, however, that Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch was rather pale all the way home.
III Almost at the same time, and certainly on the same day, the interview at last took place between Stepan Trofimovitch and Varvara Petrovna.

She had long had this meeting in her mind, and had sent word about it to her former friend, but for some reason she had kept putting it off till then.