He saw the old cook smile admiringly and listen to her inexperienced and impossible orders; saw that Agatha Mikhaylovna shook her head thoughtfully and kindly at her young mistress's arrangements in the storeroom; saw that Kitty was peculiarly charming when she came, half laughing and half crying, to report that her maid, Masha, was used to considering her merely as a young lady in her mother's house, and that therefore no one would obey her. It struck him as very charming, but strange, and he thought it would have been better without all that.
Observaba cómo el viejo cocinero sonreía admirado, cómo Agafia Mijailovna movía la cabeza, cariñosa y pensativa ante las nuevas disposiciones de la joven señora referentes a la despensa, y encontraba gentilísima a Kitty cuando, entre risas y lágrimas, decía que la doncella Macha, acostumbrada a considerarla corno una señorita, no la obedecía. Levin sonreía entre divertido y extrañado, pero, a pesar de todo, le parecía que habría sido mejor que su joven esposa no se ocupara de aquellas cosas.