And will Seryozha leave off asking and wondering about my two husbands? And is there any new feeling I can awaken between Vronsky and me? Is there possible, if not happiness, some sort of ease from misery? No, no!" she answered now without the slightest hesitation.

"Impossible! We are drawn apart by life, and I make his unhappiness, and he mine, and there's no altering him or me.

Every attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed.

Oh, a beggar woman with a baby.