well, i was told afterwards of your little passage with aglaya this afternoon, and and dear prince you are a good, sensible fellow, don’t be angry if i speak out she is laughing at you, my boy! she is enjoying herself like a child, at your expense, and therefore, since she is a child, don’t be angry with her, and don’t think anything of it. i assure you, she is simply making a fool of you, just as she does with one and all of us out of pure lack of something better to do. well good-bye!