A stout butler, resplendent with a smoothly shaven round chin and a starched white cravat, announced that dinner was ready, and the ladies got up.

Vronsky asked Sviazhsky to take in Anna Arkadyevna, and himself offered his arm to Dolly.

Veslovsky was before Tushkevitch in offering his arm to Princess Varvara, so that Tushkevitch with the steward and the doctor walked in alone.