Anna Karenina by Part 1 Chapter 10 Page 17

“No, stop a minute, stop a minute,” he said. “You must understand that it’s a question of life and death for me. I have never spoken to any one of this. And there’s no one I could speak of it to, except you. You know we’re utterly unlike each other, different tastes and views and everything; but I know you’re fond of me and understand me, and that’s why I like you awfully. But for God’s sake, be quite straightforward with me.”

“I tell you what I think,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling. “But I’ll say more: my wife is a wonderful woman...” Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, remembering his position with his wife, and, after a moment’s silence, resumed—�“She has a gift of foreseeing things. She sees right through people;