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'Yes, I should lock her up. 'And would you stay with her yourself? 'Yes, I should certainly stay with her myself. 'Very good. Well, but if she got sick of that, and she deceived you? 'I should kill her. 'And if she ran away? 'I should catch her up and kill her all the same. 'Oh. And suppose now I were your wife, what would you do then? Byelovzorov was silent a minute.
Byelovzorov sat sullen and red-faced in a corner, buttoned up to the throat; on the refined face of Malevsky there flickered continually an evil smile; he had really fallen into disfavour with Zinaida, and waited with special assiduity on the old princess, and even went with her in a hired coach to call on the Governor-General.
I warn you I want to gallop. 'Gallop away by all means ... with whom is it, with Malevsky, you are going to ride? 'And why not with him, Mr. Pugnacity? Come, be quiet, she added, 'and don't glare. I'll take you too. You know that to my mind now Malevsky's ugh! She shook her head. 'You say that to console me, growled Byelovzorov. Zinaida half closed her eyes. 'Does that console you?
One thought I could not get out of my head: how could she, a young girl, and a princess too, after all, bring herself to such a step, knowing that my father was not a free man, and having an opportunity of marrying, for instance, Byelovzorov? What did she hope for? How was it she was not afraid of ruining her whole future?
'And how could she fail to understand and see it all? All at once there was a sound in the next room the clink of a sabre. 'Zina! screamed the princess in the drawing-room, 'Byelovzorov has brought you a kitten. 'A kitten! cried Zinaida, and getting up from her chair impetuously, she flung the ball of worsted on my knees and ran away.
'If we are to have compositions, she said, 'let every one tell something made up, and no pretence about it. The first who had to speak was again Byelovzorov. The young hussar was confused. 'I can't make up anything! he cried. 'What nonsense! said Zinaida. 'Well, imagine, for instance, you are married, and tell us how you would treat your wife. Would you lock her up?
I must have a horse for to-morrow. 'Oh, and where's the money to come from? put in the old princess. Zinaida scowled. 'I won't ask you for it; Byelovzorov will trust me. 'He'll trust you, will he? ... grumbled the old princess, and all of a sudden she screeched at the top of her voice, 'Duniashka! 'Maman, I have given you a bell to ring, observed Zinaida. 'Duniashka! repeated the old lady.
Zinaida's tears had completely overwhelmed me; I positively did not know what to think, and was ready to cry myself; I was a child after all, in spite of my sixteen years. I had now given up thinking about Malevsky, though Byelovzorov looked more and more threatening every day, and glared at the wily count like a wolf at a sheep; but I thought of nothing and of no one.
Byelovzorov took leave; I went away with him. Zinaida did not try to detain me. The next day I got up early, cut myself a stick, and set off beyond the town-gates. I thought I would walk off my sorrow. It was a lovely day, bright and not too hot, a fresh sportive breeze roved over the earth with temperate rustle and frolic, setting all things a-flutter and harassing nothing.
Byelovzorov, whom she sometimes called 'my wild beast, and sometimes simply 'mine, would gladly have flung himself into the fire for her sake. With little confidence in his intellectual abilities and other qualities, he was for ever offering her marriage, hinting that the others were merely hanging about with no serious intention.
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