Tomorrow we're going away; I must see him and get ready for the journey," she said to herself.

And learning that he was in his study, she went down to him.

As she passed through the drawing room she heard a carriage stop at the entrance, and looking out of the window she saw the carriage, from which a young girl in a lilac hat was leaning out giving some direction to the footman ringing the bell.

After a parley in the hall, someone came upstairs, and Vronsky's steps could be heard passing the drawing room.

He went rapidly downstairs.