_"Vous comprenez l'anglais?"_ asked Lidia Ivanovna, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, she got up and began looking through a shelf of books.

"I want to read him 'Safe and Happy,' or 'Under the Wing,'" she said, looking inquiringly at Karenin.

And finding the book, and sitting down again in her place, she opened it.

" It's very short.