of the problem--i.e., not to think about it. He succeeded in doing

so. The life he was now entering upon, the new surroundings, new

friends, the war, all helped him to forget. And the longer he

lived, the less he thought about it, until at last he forgot it

Once only, when, after the war, he went to see his aunts in hopes

of meeting Katusha, and heard that soon after his last visit she

had left, and that his aunts had heard she had been confined

somewhere or other and had gone quite to the bad, his heart