And learning that he was in his study, she went down to him.

As she passed through the drawing room she heard a carriage stop at the entrance, and looking out of the window she saw the carriage, from which a young girl in a lilac hat was leaning out giving some direction to the footman ringing the bell.

After a parley in the hall, someone came upstairs, and Vronsky's steps could be heard passing the drawing room.

He went rapidly downstairs.

Anna went again to the window.