The pain she had caused herself and her husband in uttering those words would be rewarded now by everything being made clear, she thought.

That evening she saw Vronsky, but she did not tell him of what had passed between her and her husband, though, to make the position definite, it was necessary to tell him.

When she woke up next morning the first thing that rose to her mind was what she had said to her husband, and those words seemed to her so awful that she could not conceive now how she could have brought herself to utter those strange, coarse words, and could not imagine what would come of it.

But the words were spoken, and Alexey Alexandrovitch had gone away without saying anything.

" I saw Vronsky and did not tell him.