It was true that she was lonely in her present life; Totski had judged her thoughts aright; she longed to rise, if not to love, at least to family life and new hopes and objects, but as to Gavrila Ardalionovitch, she could not as yet say much. She thought it must be the case that he loved her; she felt that she too might learn to love him, if she could be sure of the firmness of his attachment to herself, but he was very young, it was a difficult question to decide. What she specially liked about him was that he worked, and supported his family by his toil.
