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"'With such a man can an honest woman entertain any feeling beyond the
pleasure of enjoying music with him? But if you like, I am ready
to never see him again, even on Sunday, although everybody has been
invited. Write him that I am indisposed, and that will end the
matter. Only one thing annoys me,--that any one could have thought him
dangerous. I am too proud not to detest such thoughts.'
"And she did not lie. She believed what she said. She hoped by her words
to provoke in herself a contempt for him, and thereby to defend herself.
But she did not succeed. Everything was directed against her, especially
that abominable music. So ended the quarrel, and on Sunday our guests
came, and Troukhatchevsky and my wife again played together."
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