The news of her friendship with Madame Stahl and Varenka, and the information the Princess gave him of the change she had observed in Kitty, disturbed him and aroused in him his usual feelings of jealousy toward anything that drew his daughter away from him and of fear lest she might escape from his influence into regions inaccessible to him.
Las referencias de la amistad de su hija con madame Stal y Vareñka y las observaciones de la Princesa sobre el cambio operado en Kitty impresionaron al Príncipe, despertando en él su habitual sentimiento de celos hacia todo cuanto atraía a su hija fuera del círculo de sus afectos. Le asustaba que Kitty pudiera substrarse a su influencia, alejándose hasta parajes inaccesibles para él.