"Everything has been delightful.

Alexander has been very good, and Marie has grown very pretty.

She's very interesting.

" And she began telling him again of what interested her most--the christening of her grandson, for which she had been staying in Petersburg, and the special favor shown her elder son by the Tsar.

"Here's Lavrenty," said Vronsky, looking out of the window; "now we can go, if you like.