"How understand me!" cried her father angrily.

" Prince Vasili finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil's behalf.

That's how it's to be understood! 'How understand it'!... And I ask you!" "I do not know what you think, Father," whispered the princess.

"I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question.

I'm not going to get married.