" "Alexey Alexandrovitch, really I don't understand," she said.

"Define what it is you find..." "Pardon, let me say all I have to say.

I love you.

But I am not speaking of myself; the most important persons in this matter are our son and yourself.

It may very well be, I repeat, that my words seem to you utterly unnecessary and out of place; it may be that they are called forth by my mistaken impression.