"Stop! sto-op!" said Vronsky, with no change in the gloomy lines of his brows, though he held her by the hand.

" What is it all about? I said that we must put off going for three days, and on that you told me I was lying, that I was not an honorable man.

" "Yes, and I repeat that the man who reproaches me with having sacrificed everything for me," she said, recalling the words of a still earlier quarrel, "that he's worse than a dishonorable man-- he's a heartless man.

" "Oh, there are limits to endurance!" he cried, and hastily let go her hand.

"He hates me, that's clear," she thought, and in silence, without looking round, she walked with faltering steps out of the room.