Prince Vasili did not reply, though,
with the quickness of memory and perception
befitting a man of the world,
he indicated by a movement of the head
that he was considering this information.
"Do you know," he said at last,
evidently unable to
check the sad current of his thoughts,
"that Anatole is costing me forty thousand rubles a year?
And," he went on after a pause, "
what will it be in five years,
if he goes on like this?" Presently he added:
"That's what we fathers have to put up with....
Is this princess of yours rich?"