" I understand it all.

Succor and comfort you will find not in me, though I have come only to aid you if I can.

If I could take from off you all these petty, humiliating cares...I understand that a woman's word, a woman's superintendence is needed.

You will intrust it to me?" Silently and gratefully Alexey Alexandrovitch pressed her hand.

"Together we will take care of Seryozha.