"It means _never_," she said; "but that's not true!" He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk, and stood up.

She wrote, _t, i, c, n, a, d_.

Dolly was completely comforted in the depression caused by her conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch when she caught sight of the two figures: Kitty with the chalk in her hand, with a shy and happy smile looking upwards at Levin, and his handsome figure bending over the table with glowing eyes fastened one minute on the table and the next on her.