consolation.

SASHA. Really, it shows you don't know Lisa at all to talk like this.

ANNA PAVLOVNA. You'll see. Sasha. Yes, I shall see.

ANNA PAVLOVNA (alone to herself). And I am very glad. I'm very, very
glad.

[Enter MAID.

MAID. Victor Karenin.

ANNA PAVLOVNA. Show him here and tell your mistress.

[MAID shows in KARENIN and exits door R. I.

KARENIN (goes C. and stands behind table C.). (Shaking hands with Anna
Pavlovna.) Elizaveta Andreyevna sent me a note to come at once. I
should have been here to-night anyway. How is she? Well, I hope.

ANNA PAVLOVNA. Not very. The baby has been upset again. However,
she'll be here in a minute. Will you have some tea?

KARENIN. No, thank you.

[Sits chair R.

ANNA PAVLOVNA. Tell me, do you know that he and she--.