He smiled, while she laughed gaily, with that sweet, deep laugh, which was one of her greatest charms.

"I don't understand him in the least," said Vronsky.

" If after your avowal to him at your country house he had broken with you, if he had called me out--but this I can't understand.

How can he put up with such a position? He feels it, that's evident.

" "He?" she said sneeringly.