Anna Karenina by Part 6 Chapter 21 Page 5

“But just because you feel yourself responsible, you exaggerate it, I am afraid,” she said. “Her position in the world is difficult, I can well understand.”

“In the world it is hell!” he brought out quickly, frowning darkly. “You can’t imagine moral sufferings greater than what she went through in Petersburg in that fortnight...and I beg you to believe it.”

“Yes, but here, so long as neither Anna...nor you miss society...”

“Society!” he said contemptuously, “how could I miss society?”

“So far—�and it may be so always—�you are happy and at peace. I see in Anna that she is happy, perfectly happy, she has had time to tell me so much already,”