"Really?"
"Yes. And have you not noticed it? You ought to be pleased at the notion."
Arkady reflected.
"How I have contrived to win Anna Sergievna's good graces I do not know," at length he said. "Surely it cannot be because I brought her those letters which were written by your mother?"
"It is, though, and because of other reasons as well—reasons which I will forbear to mention."
"Why will you?"
"Because I will."
"Oh, I know your faculty for obstinacy."
"It is one which I possess."
"Also, your faculty for observing things."