That is all one can say about her.”
Princess Márya sighed, and the expression on her face said: “Yes, that’s what I expected and feared.”
“Is she clever?” she asked.
Pierre considered.
“I think not,” he said, “and yet—yes. She does not deign to be clever. … Oh no, she is simply enchanting, and that is all.”
Princess Márya again shook her head disapprovingly.
“Ah, I so long to like her! Tell her so if you see her before I do.”
“I hear they are expected very soon,” said Pierre.
Princess Márya told Pierre of her plan to become intimate with her future sister-in-law as soon as the Rostóvs arrived and to try to accustom the old prince to her.
V
Borís had not succeeded in making a wealthy match in Petersburg, so with the same object in view