AS HE HAD NOT KNOWN when he would be able to leave Moscow, Koznyshev had not sent a telegram to his brother asking to be met at the station, and Levin was not at home when, toward noon, Katavasov and Koznyshev, dark as Arabs with the dust in the little tarantas they had hired at the station, drew up at the porch of the Pokrovsk house.
Como ignoraba cuándo saldría de Moscú, Sergio Ivanovich no había telegrafiado a su hermano para que le mandase el coche a la estación. Levin no se hallaba en casa cuando su hermano y Katavasov, negros de polvo, llegaron, sobre el mediodía, en el coche alquilado en la estación, a la entrada de la casa de Pokrovskoe.