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attention. Whether she was captivated by his
person, or whether she had simply made out that
he was exactly the husband she wanted, whom
she would like to see always at her feet,
as her obedient and loving giant—she showed
distinctly that she was ready to accept him as
her husband.
Peter Sergejevitsch would never have dared to
dream of such a thing; but a host of aunts and
sisters hastened to inform him of this marvellous
chance, and before he had time to realise the
fact, he was betrothed to the beautiful, rich, and
spoiled Nadeschda Andrejevna.
But their married life was not happy.
Though the children at Palibino firmly
believed that Uncle Peter existed only for
their private pleasure, and though they chatted
freely to him about everything else, they felt
instinctively that there was one subject they were
never to mention—his late wife.
They had heard awful stories about Aunt
Nadeschda Andrejevna, though neither from their
parents nor their governess, who never mentioned
her name in their presence. But their youngest
unmarried aunt, Anna Sergejevna, used to have
a gossiping fit now and then, and she had told
the children terrible things about their late aunt.
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