This second meeting might have been expected, one would have supposed, to estrange them still more.

But now they beamed and exclaimed with delight on recognizing one another.

Vronsky would never have expected to be so pleased to see Golenishtchev, but probably he was not himself aware how bored he was.

He forgot the disagreeable impression of their last meeting, and with a face of frank delight held out his hand to his old comrade.