This morning I go with Anna Petrovna to the cholera.

All is arranged." "I'm afraid you must change your plans." "I'm afraid not." "Goga may go...." "No, I wish to go." And she went.

He had certainly never before in his life been thus defied.

He simply did not know what to do about it.

If he had thought that bullying would frighten her he would, I believe, have bullied her, but he knew quite well that it wouldn't.