1.) It is said that Pierre and Natasha talk like only wife and husband can, conveying thoughts quickly in a way contrary to the rules of logic. Is this a reality in marriage or is the conveying of thoughts to each other still a difficult thing in some instances?

2.) In Pierre’s opinion all their quarrels have to do with Natasha’s jealousy about a women in Petersburg. Who is this women and what happened to make Natasha jealous of her?

3.) Because of a dream the sickly boy Nikolenka had he decides he wants to prove himself as Mucius did in Plutarch’s story. In the two and a half weeks we have still left are we going to see any of that or was this just something to flesh out his character?

Final Line:

Yes, I’ll do something that even he would be pleased with…”

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