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Besides this, she was pleased to go away to the country because

she was dreaming of getting her sister Kitty to stay with her

there. Kitty was to be back from abroad in the middle of the

summer, and bathing had been prescribed for her. Kitty wrote that

no prospect was so alluring as to spend the summer with Dolly at

Ergushovo, full of childish associations for both of them.

The first days of her existence in the country were very hard for

Dolly. She used to stay in the country as a child, and the

impression she had retained of it was that the country was a

refuge from all the unpleasantness of the town, that life there,

though not luxurious-Dolly could easily make up her mind to

that-was cheap and comfortable; that there was plenty of

everything, everything was cheap, everything could be got, and

children were happy. But now coming to the country as the head of

a family, she perceived that it was all utterly unlike what she

had fancied.