She waited for a long while without moving, and had forgotten about him.

She thought of that other; she pictured him, and felt how her heart was flooded with emotion and guilty delight at the thought of him.

Suddenly she heard an even, tranquil snore.

For the first instant Alexey Alexandrovitch seemed, as it were, appalled at his own snoring, and ceased; but after an interval of two breathings the snore sounded again, with a new tranquil rhythm.