There was still a long time before the dinner-hour, it was exquisite weather, and so several different methods of spending the next two hours were proposed.

There were very many methods of passing the time at Vozdvizhenskoe, and these were all unlike those in use at Pokrovskoe.

"_Une partie de lawn-tennis,_" Veslovsky proposed, with his handsome smile.

" We'll be partners again, Anna Arkadyevna.

" "No, it's too hot; better stroll about the garden and have a row in the boat, show Darya Alexandrovna the river banks.