Left by themselves, the children had started cooking raspberries over a candle, and pouring jets of milk into their mouths. When their mother caught them at this pursuit, she began in Levin's presence to impress on them how much trouble what they were wasting had cost grown-up people, that that trouble had been taken for them, that if they broke cups they would not have anything to drink tea out of, and if they spilt milk they would not have anything to eat and would die of hunger.
Los niños, habiendo quedado solos, comenzaron a cocer frambuesas a la llama de unas bujías y a echar la leche por la boca como un surtidon Dolly, al sorprenderlos, comenzó a explicarles, en presencia de Levin, el mucho trabajo que a las personas mayores les costaba preparar aquello que destruían, y que tal trabajo se hacía por ellos; que si rompían las tazas, no tendrían donde tomar el té, y si arrojaban la leche al suelo, se quedarían sin comer y morirían de hambre.