She was worrying over something, and keeping something back from him, and did not seem to notice the humiliations which poisoned his existence, and for her, with her delicate intuition, must have been still more unbearable.

One of Anna's objects in coming back to Russia had been to see her son.

From the day she left Italy the thought of it had never ceased to agitate her.

And as she got nearer to Petersburg, the delight and importance of this meeting grew ever greater in her imagination.

She did not even put to herself the question how to arrange it.