Она только что приехала, с презрением прогнала Кириллова, торчавшего в низу лестницы; наскоро познакомилась с Marie, которая за прежнюю знакомую ее не признала; нашла ее в "сквернейшем положении", то есть злобною, расстроенною и в "самом малодушном отчаянии", и - в каких-нибудь пять минут одержала решительный верх над всеми ее возражениями.
She had just arrived, had contemptuously dismissed Kirillov, whom she found hanging about the foot of the stairs, had hastily introduced herself to Marie, who had not recognised her as her former acquaintance, found her in "a very bad way," that is ill-tempered, irritable and in "a state of cowardly despair," and within five minutes had completely silenced all her protests.