" "But I believe Anna Arkadyevna refuses a divorce, if I make it a condition to leave me my son.

I replied in that sense, and supposed that the matter was ended.

I consider it at an end," shrieked Alexey Alexandrovitch.

"But, for heaven's sake, don't get hot!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, touching his brother-in-law's knee.

" The matter is not ended.