"What do you say, shall we go and look for mushrooms today?" said Dolly.

"By all means, please, and I shall come too," said Kitty, and she blushed.

She wanted from politeness to ask Vassenka whether he would come, and she did not ask him.

" Where are you going, Kostya?" she asked her husband with a guilty face, as he passed by her with a resolute step.

This guilty air confirmed all his suspicions.

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