this agitated the old lady considerably; and she awoke her other daughters. next, she learned from the maid that aglaya had gone into the park before seven o’clock. the sisters made a joke of aglaya’s last freak, and told their mother that if she went into the park to look for her, aglaya would probably be very angry with her, and that she was pretty sure to be sitting reading on the green bench that she had talked of two or three days since, and about which she had nearly quarrelled with prince s., who did not see anything particularly lovely in it.