Anna Karenina - Part 2

Could that touching pleasure he showed when she came near be the

cause of Anna Pavlovna's coolness?

"Yes," she mused, "there was something unnatural about Anna

Pavlovna, and utterly unlike her good nature, when she said

angrily the day before yesterday: 'There, he will keep waiting

for you; he wouldn't drink his coffee without you, though he's

grown so dreadfully weak.'"

"Yes, perhaps, too, she didn't like it when I gave him the rug.

It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so

long thanking me, that I felt awkward too. And then that

portrait of me he did so well. And most of all that look of

confusion and tenderness! Yes, yes, that's it!" Kitty repeated

to herself with horror. "No, it can't be, it oughtn't to be!

He's so much to be pitied!" she said to herself directly after.

This doubt poisoned the charm of her new life.