At that very instant Yulia Mihailovna returned and entered noisily with all the party which had accompanied her.

But at this point I should like to tell my story in as much detail as possible.
III In the first place, the whole company who had filled three carriages crowded into the waiting-room.

There was a special entrance to Yulia Mihailovna's apartments on the left as one entered the house; but on this occasion they all went through the waiting-room--and I imagine just because Stepan Trofimovitch was there, and because all that had happened to him as well as the Shpigulin affair had reached Yulia Mihailovna's ears as she drove into the town.

Lyamshin, who for some misdemeanour had not been invited to join the party and so knew all that had been happening in the town before anyone else, brought her the news.

With spiteful glee he hired a wretched Cossack nag and hastened on the way to Skvoreshniki to meet the returning cavalcade with the diverting intelligence.