At this moment Kolia ran into the drawing room shouting "Mamma!
mamma! Papa has come!" And after him, waddling on her stout
little legs, appeared an old grey-haired lady in a cap and yellow
shawl, and also announced that Boris had come.

This lady was Sipiagin's aunt, and was called Anna Zaharovna.
Everyone in the drawing room rushed out into the hall, down the
stairs, and on to the steps of the portico. A long avenue of
chipped yews ran straight from these steps to the high road--a
carriage and four was already rolling up the avenue straight
towards them. Valentina Mihailovna, standing in front, waved her
pocket handkerchief, Kolia shrieked with delight, the coachman
adroitly pulled up the steaming horses, a footman came down
headlong from the box and almost pulled the carriage door off its
hinges in his effort to open it--and then, with a condescending
smile on his lips, in his eyes, over the whole of his face, Boris
Andraevitch, with one graceful gesture of the shoulders, dropped
his cloak and sprang to the ground. Valentina Mihailovna
gracefully threw her arms round his neck and they kissed three
times. Kolia stamped his little feet and pulled at his father's
coat from behind, but Boris Andraevitch first kissed Anna
Zaharovna, quickly threw off his uncomfortable, ugly Scotch cap,
greeted Mariana and Kollomietzev, who had also come out (he gave
Kollomietzev a hearty shake of the hand in the English fashion),
and then turned to his little son, lifted him under the arms, and
kissed him.

During this scene Nejdanov half guiltily scrambled out of the
carriage and, without removing his cap, stood quietly near the