Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself a king, not because he believed that he had made an impression on Anna—�he did not yet believe that,—�but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

What would come of it all he did not know, he did not even think. He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal. And he was happy at it. He knew only that he had told her the truth, that he had come where she was, that all the happiness of his life, the only meaning in life for him, now lay in seeing and hearing her. And when he got out of the carriage at

Bologova to get some seltzer water, and caught sight of Anna, involuntarily his first word had told her just