" You won't go either, will you? Who wants to play croquet?" "Oh, I like it," said Anna.

"There, how do you manage never to be bored by things? It's delightful to look at you.

You're alive, but I'm bored.

" "How can you be bored? Why, you live in the liveliest set in Petersburg," said Anna.

"Possibly the people who are not of our set are even more bored; but we--I certainly--are not happy, but awfully, awfully bored.