Anna Karenina by Part 4 Chapter 3 Page 3

“This morning Liza came to see me — they’re not afraid to call on me, in spite of the Countess Lidia Ivanovna,” she put in — “and she told me about your Athenian evening. How loathsome!”

“I was just going to say...”

She interrupted him. “It was that Therese you used to know?”

“I was just saying...”

“How disgusting you are, you men! How is it you can’t understand that a woman can never forget that,” she said, getting more and more angry, and so letting him see the cause of her irritation, “especially a woman who cannot know your life? What do I know? What have I ever known?” she said, “what you tell me. And how do I know whether you tell me the truth?...”