"It's now two o'clock and you dine at four.

There will just be time." And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.
"Good-by, my dear," said she to the countess who saw her to the door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, "Wish me good luck." "Are you going to Count Cyril Vladimirovich, my dear ?" said the count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: "If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us.

He has been to the house, you know, and danced with the children.

Be sure to invite him, my dear.
We will see how Taras distinguishes himself today.

He says Count Orlov never gave such a dinner as ours will be!".