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"Why bring Levin in too? I can't understand what you want to

torment me for. I've told you, and I say it again, that I have

some pride, and never, never would I do as you're doing-go back

to a man who's deceived you, who has cared for another woman. I

can't understand it! You may, but I can't!"

And saying these words she glanced at her sister, and seeing that

Dolly sat silent, her head mournfully bowed, Kitty, instead of

running out of the room as she had meant to do, sat down near the

door, and hid her face in her handkerchief.

The silence lasted for two minutes: Dolly was thinking of

herself. That humiliation of which she was always conscious came

back to her with a peculiar bitterness when her sister reminded

her of it. She had not looked for such cruelty in her sister, and

she was angry with her. But suddenly she heard the rustle of a

skirt, and with it the sound of heart-rending, smothered sobbing,

and felt arms about her neck. Kitty was on her knees before her.