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She always seemed absorbed in work about which there could be no

doubt, and so it seemed she could not take interest in anything

outside it. It was just this contrast with her own position that

was for Kitty the great attraction of Mademoiselle Varenka. Kitty

felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an

example of what she was now so painfully seeking: interest in

life, a dignity in life-apart from the worldly relations of girls

with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now as a

shameful hawking about of goods in search of a purchaser. The

more attentively Kitty watched her unknown friend, the more

convinced she was this girl was the perfect creature she fancied

her, and the more eagerly she wished to make her acquaintance.