" Prince Vasili's son, he, and a certain Dolokhov have, it is said, been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it.

Dolokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezukhov's son sent back to Moscow.

Anatole Kuragin's father managed somehow to get his son's affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.

" "But what have they been up to?" asked the countess.