Both the young men were in Vronsky's company.

The colonel of the regiment was waited upon by the government clerk, Venden, with a complaint against his officers, who had insulted his wife.

His young wife, so Venden told the story--he had been married half a year--was at church with her mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one, she came across.