human
What marvellous weather! said the count, as he joined Liza, and sat down in the low window-seat.
gpt
I suppose you go to walk a good deal, don't you?
human
Yes, rejoined Liza, not experiencing the slightest embarrassment in the count's company.
gpt
Every morning, at seven o'clock, I make the tour of the estate, and sometimes I take a walk with Pímotchka,--mamma's _protégée_.
human
It's pleasant living in the country, cried the count, putting his monocle to his eye, and gazing first at the garden, and then at Liza.
gpt
But don't you like to take a walk on moonlight nights?
human
No. Three years ago my uncle and I used to go out walking every moonlight night. He had some sort of strange illness,--insomnia. Whenever there was a full moon, he could not sleep. His room like this opens into the garden, and the window is low. The moon shines right into it.
gpt
Strange, remarked the count.
human
Then this is your room.
gpt
No, I only sleep there for this one night. You occupy my room.
human
Is it possible? ... oh, good heavens![85] I shall never in the world forgive myself for the trouble that I have caused, said the count, casting the monocle from his eye as a sign of sincerity....
gpt
If I had only known that I was going to
human
How much trouble was it? On the contrary, I am very glad. My uncle's room is so nice and jolly: there's a low window there. I shall sit down in it before I go to bed, or perhaps I shall go down, out into the garden, and take a little walk.
gpt
What a glorious girl! said the count to himself, replacing the monocle, and staring at her, and while pretending to change his seat in the window, trying to touch her foot with his.
human
And how shrewdly she gave me to understand that I might meet her in the garden at the window, if I would come down!
gpt
And how blissful it must be, said the count dreamily, gazing into the shadow-haunted alley,