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Next day Raisky took the bouquet holder, and discussed the arrangement of the flowers with the gardener. He himself bought for Marfinka an elegant watch and chain, with two hundred roubles which he borrowed from Tiet Nikonich, for Tatiana Markovna would not have given him so much money for the purpose, and would have betrayed the secret.
Tell him to sit quiet." "It wasn't my fault, Tatiana Markovna. Marfa Vassilievna told me to go into the garden, and she herself ran on in front." "He is a man. But it does not become you, who are a girl, to do these things." "You see what I have to endure through you," said Marfinka. "Never mind, Marfa Vassilievna. Granny is only scolding a little, as she is privileged to do."
Understand, Grandmother," she went on, as Tatiana Markovna's anxiety could no longer be concealed, "that if by a miracle he now became the man I hoped he would be, if he now were to believe all that I believe, and loved me as I desired to love him, even if all this happened I would not turn aside from my path at his call." No song could have been sweeter to the ears of Tatiana Markovna.
They praised Solomin, Tatiana, Pavel; spoke of the Sipiagins and how their former life had receded from them far into the distance, as if enveloped in a mist; then they clasped each other's hand again, exchanged tender glances; wondered what class they had better go among first, and how to behave so that people should not suspect them.
Nejdanov declared that the less they thought about that, and the more naturally they behaved, the better. "Of course! We want to become simple, as Tatiana says." "I didn't mean it in that sense," Nejdanov began; "I meant that we must not be self-conscious." Mariana suddenly burst out laughing. "Do you remember, Aliosha, how I said that we had both become simplified?"
"And so would Tatiana," Mariana observed. "Why are people so devoted to him?" Nejdanov did not reply. "What sort of books did Pavel bring you?" Mariana asked. "Oh, nothing new. 'The Story of the Four Brothers, and then the ordinary, well-known ones, which are far better I think." Mariana looked around uneasily. "I wonder what has become of Tatiana? She promised to come early." "Here I am!"
Another time, noticing that Kapiton the same Kapiton who was the subject of the conversation reported above was gossiping somewhat too attentively with Tatiana, Gerasim beckoned him to him, led him into the cartshed, and taking up a shaft that was standing in a corner by one end, lightly, but most significantly, menaced him with it. Since then no one addressed a word to Tatiana.
Tatiana Markovna fed her servants decently with cabbage soup and groats, on feast-days with rye and mutton; at Christmas geese and pigs were roasted. She allowed nothing out of the common on the servants' table or in their dress, but she gave the surplus from her own table now to one woman, now to another.
Raisky's face changed. "Well?" he urged. "Tatiana Markovna restrained his hand. 'You are' she said, 'a nobleman, not a bandit, your weapon is a sword. She succeeded in separating them, and a duel was not possible, for it would have compromised her. The opponents gave their word; the Count to keep silence over what had happened, and Tiet Nikonich not to marry Tatiana Markovna.
A moment later there was the report of a gun from the precipice. Raisky wondered who was playing tricks there, and went towards the house. Vera appeared punctually at the midday meal. Keenly as he looked at her, Raisky could observe no change in her. Tatiana Markovna glanced at him once or twice in inquiry, but was visibly reassured when she saw no signs of anything unusual.
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