"Yes, if possible," said Anna, speaking all at once in an utterly different tone, subdued and mournful.

"Surely you don't mean a divorce is impossible? I was told your husband had consented to it.

" "Dolly, I don't want to talk about that.

" "Oh, we won't then," Darya Alexandrovna hastened to say, noticing the expression of suffering on Anna's face.

" All I see is that you take too gloomy a view of things.