She disliked him for his pride and ingratitude and could never forgive him for not having come straight to her on his expulsion from the university.

On the contrary he had not even answered the letter she had expressly sent him at the time, and preferred to be a drudge in the family of a merchant of the new style, with whom he went abroad, looking after his children more in the position of a nurse than of a tutor.

He was very eager to travel at the time.

The children had a governess too, a lively young Russian lady, who also became one of the household on the eve of their departure, and had been engaged chiefly because she was so cheap.

Two months later the merchant turned her out of the house for "free thinking." Shatov took himself off after her and soon afterwards married her in Geneva.
They lived together about three weeks, and then parted as free people recognising no bonds, though, no doubt, also through poverty.