What is to be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky

And thus three years have passed since the union was founded, and more than three years since Viéra Pavlovna's marriage. How quietly and busily passed these three years, how full they were of calmness, happiness, and all that was good!

Viéra Pavlovna after waking, long takes her ease in bed; she likes to take her ease, and as it were, to doze; and yet she does not doze, but she thinks of what must needs be done; and so she lies, not dozing and not thinking; yes, she is thinking, "How warm, soft, good, how comfortable it is to sleep in the morning"; and so she lies and takes her ease, until from the neutral room -- no, we must say from one of the neutral rooms; there are two of them now, because it is the fourth year of their wedded life -- her husband, that is her mílenki, says, "Viérotchka, are you awake?"