Anna Karenina - Part 3

At nine o'clock they heard the bell and the faint vibration of a

carriage over the mud.

"Well, here's visitors come to us, and you won't be dull," said

Agafea Mihalovna, getting up and going to the door. But Levin

overtook her. His work was not going well now, and he was glad

of a visitor, whoever it might be.