"oh, none at all! he has behaved very well indeed. i didn’t mean to drop any sort of hint. his own fortune is intact, i believe. lizabetha prokofievna, of course, refuses to listen to anything. that’s the worst of it all, these family catastrophes or quarrels, or whatever you like to call them. you know, prince, you are a friend of the family, so i don’t mind telling you; it now appears that evgenie pavlovitch proposed to aglaya a month ago, and was refused."