Pierre , natasha , nikolay , countess marya , and denisov had a great deal they wanted to talk about , which was not talked of before the old countess ; not because anything was concealed from her , but simply because she had dropped so out of things , that if they had begun to talk freely before her they would have had to answer so many questions put by her at random , and to repeat so many things that had been repeated to her so many times already ; to tell her that this person was dead and that person was married , which she could never remember 虽然皮埃尔娜塔莎尼古拉玛丽亚伯爵夫人和杰尼索夫有许多话要说，但是他们不愿在老伯爵夫人面前说，倒不是有什么事要瞒着她，而是因为老伯爵夫人在许多方面落后了。如果当着她的面谈话，就得回答她提出的一些早已过时的问题，有些话还得反复地说，如告诉她某人去世了，某人结婚了。就这样，她可能还记不住。
