“You’re right, perhaps. Do you remember Liza?”

“ Charmante enfant! ”

“But she’s not an enfant now, but a woman, and a woman of character. She’s a generous, passionate creature, and what I like about her, she stands up to that confiding fool, her mother. There was almost a row over that cousin.”

“Bah, and of course he’s no relation of Lizaveta Nikolaevna’s at all.⁠ ⁠… Has he designs on her?”