But of late new inner relations had arisen between him and her, which frightened Vronsky by their indefiniteness.

Only the day before she had told him that she was with child.

And he felt that this fact and what she expected of him called for something not fully defined in that code of principles by which he had hitherto steered his course in life.

And he had been indeed caught unawares, and at the first moment when she spoke to him of her position, his heart had prompted him to beg her to leave her husband.