‘It was impossible at first; and afterwards when I was married——.’
‘Have you been married long?’
‘Four years.’
‘Have you no children?’
‘No,’ she answered drily.
Litvinov was silent for a little.
‘And did you go on living at that, what was his name, Count Reisenbach’s, till your marriage?’
Irina looked steadily at him, as though she were trying to make up her mind why he asked that question.
‘No,’ ... was her answer at last.
‘I suppose, your parents.... By the way, I haven’t asked after them. Are they——’