“What, tell me! Tell me,” Ivan said, rising. “What do you want?”

“I want to know, and I really do; but how is it to be done?”

“Aha, a ha!” she cried, suddenly smiling at him. “I assure you,
I don’t know how to do it. You are still dreaming of your mother,
I mean; but I am afraid that you are quite upset at her, and