And he waited for her in her drawing room.

But Anna did not return alone, but brought with her her old unmarried aunt, Princess Oblonskaya.

This was the lady who had come in the morning, and with whom Anna had gone out shopping.

Anna appeared not to notice Vronsky's worried and inquiring expression, and began a lively account of her morning's shopping.

He saw that there was something working within her; in her flashing eyes, when they rested for a moment on him, there was an intense concentration, and in her words and movements there was that nervous rapidity and grace which, during the early period of their intimacy, had so fascinated him, but which now so disturbed and alarmed him.