“She is well, but sad. But do you know who rescued her? It is quite a romance. Nicolas Rostóv! She was surrounded, and they wanted to kill her and had wounded some of her people. He rushed in and saved her.⁠ ⁠…”

“Another romance,” said the militia officer. “Really, this general flight has been arranged to get all the old maids married off. Catiche is one and Princess Bolkónskaya another.”

“Do you know, I really believe she is un petit peu amoureuse du jeune homme .” 90

“Forfeit, forfeit, forfeit!”

“But how could one say that in Russian?”

When Pierre returned home he was handed two of Rostopchín’s broadsheets that had been brought that day.