non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. ’I’m much obliged for the gratification, my humble respects’—�that’s all the tragedy. And in platonic love there can be no tragedy, because in that love all is clear and pure, because...”

At that instant Levin recollected his own sins and the inner conflict he had lived through. And he added unexpectedly:�

“But perhaps you are right. Very likely...I don’t know, I don’t know.”

“It’s this, don’t you see,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, “you’re very much all of a piece. That’s your strong point and your failing. You have a character that’s all of a piece, and you want the whole of life to be of a piece too—�but