She was not mistaken.

As soon as they had passed through the little gate back into the garden, he looked in the direction Anna had taken, and having made sure that she could neither hear nor see them, he began: "You guess that I have something I want to say to you," he said, looking at her with laughing eyes.

" I am not wrong in believing you to be a friend of Anna's.

" He took off his hat, and taking out his handkerchief, wiped his head, which was growing bald.

Darya Alexandrovna made no answer, and merely stared at him with dismay.