She had scarcely time to go to her dressing-room, put powder on her long pale face and rub it off again, smarten herself up, and order tea to be served in the big drawing-room, before one carriage after another began to arrive at the door of her immense house on the Great Morskaya.
Apenas hubo entrado en su tocador y empolvado su ovalado y pálido rostro, revisado su vestido y, después de haber ordenado que sirvieran el té en el salón principal, comenzaron a llegar coches a su amplia casa de la calle Bolchaya Morskaya.