She had learned to knit since Prince Andrey had once said to her that no one made such a good sick-nurse as an old nurse who knitted stockings, and that there was something soothing about knitting.

• （安德烈公爵有一回告诉她，谁都不善于像老妈妈那样看护病人，她们总是一边看护，一边织袜子，而织袜子的动作里有安详感，听了之后，她便学起编织袜子来了）。