“Oh, let me be! Why have you interfered at all? Why? Why? Who asked you to?” shouted Natásha, raising herself on the sofa and looking malignantly at Márya Dmítrievna.

“But what did you want?” cried Márya Dmítrievna, growing angry again. “Were you kept under lock and key? Who hindered his coming to the house? Why carry you off as if you were some gypsy singing girl?⁠ ⁠… Well, if he had carried you off⁠ ⁠… do you think they wouldn’t have found him? Your father, or brother, or your betrothed? And he’s a scoundrel, a wretch⁠—that’s a fact!”

“He is better than any of you!” exclaimed Natásha getting up. “If you hadn’t interfered⁠ ⁠… Oh, my God! What is it all? What is it? Sónya, why?⁠ ⁠… Go away!”

And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned. Márya Dmítrievna was to speak again but Natásha cried out:

“Go away! Go away! You all hate and despise me!” and she threw herself back on the sofa.