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Kitty answered that nothing had happened between them, and that

she could not tell why Anna Pavlovna seemed displeased with her.

Kitty answered perfectly truly. She did not know the reason Anna

Pavlovna had changed to her, but she guessed it. She guessed at

something which she could not tell her mother, which she did not

put into words to herself. It was one of those things which one

knows but which one can never speak of even to oneself, so

terrible and shameful would it be to be mistaken.