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FÉDYA. At an end, and, I hasten to add, not by her fault, but by
mine--by my innumerable faults. She is, as she always was, quite
irreproachable.
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. Well then, Victor Karénin, or rather his mother, asked
me to find out what your intentions are.
FÉDYA [growing excited] What intentions? I have none. I set her quite
free! Moreover, I will never disturb her peace. I know she loves Victor
Karénin. Well, let her! I consider him a very dull, but very good and
honourable man, and I think that she will, as the phrase goes, be happy
with him; and--que le bon Dieu les bénisse![20] That's all ...
[
20] May God bless them!
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. Yes, but we ...
FÉDYA [interrupting] And don't suppose that I feel the least bit
jealous. If I said that Victor is dull, I withdraw the remark. He is an
excellent, honourable, moral man: almost the direct opposite of myself.
And he has loved her from childhood. Perhaps she too may have loved him
when she married me--that happens sometimes! The very best love is
unconscious love. I believe she always did love him; but as an honest
woman she did not confess it even to herself. But ... a shadow of some
kind always lay across our family life--but why am I confessing to you?
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