Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 4. CHAPTER IV (continued)

"Ah, I so long to like her! Tell her so if you see her before I do."

"I hear they are expected very soon," said Pierre.

Princess Mary told Pierre of her plan to become intimate with her future sister-in-law as soon as the Rostovs arrived and to try to accustom the old prince to her.