" "Were you really in love?" she said to Yashvin.

"Oh heavens! ever so many times! But you see, some men can play but only so that they can always lay down their cards when the hour of a _rendezvous_ comes, while I can take up love, but only so as not to be late for my cards in the evening.

That's how I manage things.

" "No, I didn't mean that, but the real thing.

" She would have said _Helsingfors_, but would not repeat the word used by Vronsky.