His wife in her gala dress, a grey silk, evidently worried both about the children who would have to dine alone in the nursery and about her husband who had not returned, had not managed in his absence to mix the guests properly.
Daria Alejandrovna, vestida de seda gris, estaba evidentemente preocupada por los niños, que comían solos en su cuarto; pero lo estaba sobre todo por la tardanza de su marido, ya que ella no sabía organizar bien aquellas reuniones.