It is this, I believe, which explains the astonishing tust my husband had in me and in all my acts, although nothing I ever did transcended the limits of the ordinary. It was these mutual attitudes which enabled both of us to live all the fourteen years of our married life in the greatest happiness possible for human beings on earth. Anna Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Reminiscences, Liveright, New York, 1971, p. 384.