"Anna Nicolaëvna! Annouchka,--pray, for heaven's sake,--calm
yourself,--I beseech you."
And I took her hand in mine.
But at the moment when I least expected it, she suddenly arose, then,
like a flash, ran towards the door and disappeared.
Dame Louise, who entered the room a few moments later, found me in the
same place, as if struck by a thunderbolt.
I could not understand how this interview could have ended so abruptly,
and in such a ridiculous manner, before I had expressed a hundredth part
of what I had to say; before I even could foresee what the consequences
of it were.
"Mademoiselle has gone?" Dame Louise asked me, raising her yellow
eyebrows.