‘Je vous aimais toute ma vie… vingt ans!’45 She still said nothing — for a good two or three minutes. ‘Well, that didn’t prevent you from spraying yourself with perfume when you were getting ready to propose to Dasha,’ she said suddenly in a terrible whisper.
Oh NAH. They've all been fooling themselves. Stepan perfumed himself as he was getting ready to propose to Dasha because he believed Varvara was marrying him off 'to another's sins'. He would have gone even there for her.
