“He doesn’t obey⁠ ⁠… I said it twice⁠ ⁠… and he doesn’t obey! She is the first person in this house; she’s my best friend,” cried the prince. “And if you allow yourself,” he screamed in a fury, addressing Princess Márya for the first time, “to forget yourself again before her as you dared to do yesterday, I will show you who is master in this house. Go! Don’t let me set eyes on you; beg her pardon!”

Princess Márya asked Amálya Evgénievna’s pardon, and also her father’s pardon for herself and for Philip the footman, who had begged for her intervention.