And at that instant there flashed across his mind the thought of what Serpuhovskoy had just said to him, and what he had himself been thinking in the morning--that it was better not to bind himself --and he knew that this thought he could not tell her.

Having read the letter, he raised his eyes to her, and there was no determination in them.

She saw at once that he had been thinking about it before by himself.

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