I'm certain I'm not wanted, still I've promised, and if you like, I'll come.

But there's no hurry.

Please sit down; won't you have some coffee?" Levin stared at him with eyes that asked whether he was laughing at him; but the doctor had no notion of making fun of him.

"I know, I know," the doctor said, smiling; "I'm a married man myself; and at these moments we husbands are very much to be pitied.