Will you drink tea ?" "I will.

What is the matter with you, are you ill ?" "Go to the dining-room, and I'll tell them to bring the samovar," she said, not answering his question.
He went into one of the small rooms of the house, whose two windows overlooked the garden.

In the middle of the room stood an oval table, surrounded with old-fashioned, leather-covered chairs; on one partition hung a clock in a long case with a glass door, in the corner was a cupboard for dishes, and opposite the windows, by the walls, was an oaken sideboard as big as a fair-sized room.
"Are you coming from the banquet ?" asked Luba, entering.
Foma nodded his head mutely.
"Well, how was it?
Grand ?" "It was terrible!" Foma smiled.

"I sat there as if on hot coals.

They all looked there like peacocks, while I looked like a barn-owl." Luba was taking out dishes from the cupboard and said nothing to Foma.
"Really, why are you so sad ?" asked Foma again, glancing at her gloomy face.
She turned to him and said with enthusiasm and anxiety: "Ah, Foma! What a book I've read! If you could only understand it!" "It must be a good book, since it worked you up in this way," said Foma, smiling.
"I did not sleep.