Darya Alexandrovna at that moment pitied him with all her heart.

" That was what I did indeed when she herself made known to me my humiliation; I left everything as of old.

I gave her a chance to reform, I tried to save her.

And with what result? She would not regard the slightest request--that she should observe decorum," he said, getting heated.

" One may save anyone who does not want to be ruined; but if the whole nature is so corrupt, so depraved, that ruin itself seems to be her salvation, what's to be done?" "Anything, only not divorce!" answered Darya Alexandrovna "But what is anything?" "No, it is awful! She will be no one's wife, she will be lost!" "What can I do?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, raising his shoulders and his eyebrows.