" I see, of course..." But at that instant Kritsky, at the door, called him... "What do you want now?" he said, and went out to him in the passage.

Left alone with Marya Nikolaevna, Levin turned to her.

"Have you been long with my brother?" he said to her.

"Yes, more than a year.

Nikolay Dmitrievitch's health has become very poor.