" "Well, that's not quite it.

" "Anyway you make an offer, when your love is ripe or when the balance has completely turned between the two you are choosing from.

But a girl is not asked.

She is expected to make her choice, and yet she cannot choose, she can only answer 'yes' or 'no.

'" "Yes, to choose between me and Vronsky," thought Levin, and the dead thing that had come to life within him died again, and only weighed on his heart and set it aching.