Natasha was evidently dismayed at the thought of what he might think she had meant.

Here Mrs. Chailey came in with a message.

After a few words to Pierre about the awful roads from the Polish frontier, about people he had met in Switzerland who knew Pierre, and about M. Dessalles, whom he had brought from abroad to be his son`s tutor, Prince Andrew again joined warmly in the conversation about Speranski which was still going on between the two old men.