" Varenka worships her.
And then she does so much good! Ask anyone! Everyone knows her and Aline Stahl.
" "Perhaps so," said the prince, squeezing her hand with his elbow; "but it's better when one does good so that you may ask everyone and no one knows.
" Kitty did not answer, not because she had nothing to say, but because she did not care to reveal her secret thoughts even to her father.
But, strange to say, although she had so made up her mind not to be influenced by her father's views, not to let him into her inmost sanctuary, she felt that the heavenly image of Madame Stahl, which she had carried for a whole month in her heart, had vanished, never to return, just as the fantastic figure made up of some clothes thrown down at random vanishes when one sees that it is only some garment lying there.