“My opinion,” answered Levin, “is only that this table-turning simply proves that educated society—�so called—�is no higher than the peasants. They believe in the evil eye, and in witchcraft and omens, while we...”

“Oh, then you don’t believe in it?”

“I can’t believe in it, countess.”

“But if I’ve seen it myself?”

“The peasant women too tell us they have seen goblins.”

“Then you think I tell a lie?”

And she laughed a mirthless laugh.

“Oh, no, Masha, Konstantin Dmitrievitch said he could not believe in it,”