You receive a pension which I look upon as an obligation.

You will save her perhaps, you will save her! In any case you will be doing her an honour.

You will form her for life, you will develop her heart, you will direct her ideas.

How many people come to grief nowadays because their ideas are wrongly directed.

By that time your book will be ready, and you will at once set people talking about you again." "I am, in fact," he muttered, at once flattered by Varvara Petrovna's adroit insinuations.