Please sit down; won't you have some coffee?" Levin stared at him with eyes that asked whether he was laughing at him; but the doctor had no notion of making fun of him.

"I know, I know," the doctor said, smiling; "I'm a married man myself; and at these moments we husbands are very much to be pitied.

I've a patient whose husband always takes refuge in the stables on such occasions.

" "But what do you think, Pyotr Dmitrievitch? Do you suppose it may go all right?" "Everything points to a favorable issue.

" "So you'll come immediately?" said Levin, looking wrathfully at the servant who was bringing in the coffee.