In the first she wrote that his brother had sent her away for no fault of hers, adding with touching naiveté that, though she was again in want she did not ask or desire anything, but wrote because she was crushed by the thought that Nicholas Dmitrich would perish without her, his health being so bad.
En su primera carta, ella le dijo que Nicolás la había echado a la calle sin culpa, añadiendo con flema ingenuidad que, aunque vivía en la miseria, no pedía ni deseaba nada, atormentándola sólo el pensamiento de que Nicolás, a causa de su decaída salud, iría cada día peor, y pedía a Levin que se preocupase por él.