Anna Karenina

I do? In your heart there was found love enough
to forgive...."
If it had not been for you, God knows what would have happened!
How happy you are, Anna!" said Dolly. "Everything is clear and good in
your heart."
{PART_ONE|CHAPTER_XXVIII ^paragraph 10}
"Every heart has its own skeleton, as the English say."
"You have no sort of skeleton, have you? Everything is so clear in
you."
"I have!" said Anna suddenly, and, unexpectedly after her tears, a
sly, mocking smile puckered her lips.
"Come, he's amusing, anyway, your skeleton, and not depressing,"
said Dolly, smiling.
"No, he is depressing. Do you know why I'm going today instead of
tomorrow? This is a confession that weighs on me; I want to make you
its recipient," said Anna resolutely letting herself drop into an
armchair, and looking straight into Dolly's face.
{PART_ONE|CHAPTER_XXVIII ^paragraph 15}
And to her surprise Dolly saw that Anna was blushing up to her ears,
up to the curly black ringlets on her neck.
"Yes," Anna went on. "Do you know why Kitty didn't come to dinner?
She's jealous of me. I have spoiled... I've been the cause of that
ball being a torture to her instead of a pleasure. But truly, truly,
it's not my fault, or only my fault a little bit," she said,
daintily drawling the words "a little bit."
"Oh, how like Stiva you said that!" said Dolly, laughing.
Anna was hurt.
"Oh no, oh no! I'm not Stiva," she said, knitting her brows. "That's
why I'm telling you, just because I do not even for an instant
permit myself to doubt about myself," said Anna.
{PART_ONE|CHAPTER_XXVIII ^paragraph 20}
But at the very moment she was uttering the words, she felt that
they were not true. She was not merely doubting about herself- she
felt emotion at the thought of Vronsky, and was going away sooner than
she had meant, solely to avoid meeting him.
"Yes, Stiva told me you danced the mazurka with him, and that he..."
"You can't imagine how absurdly it all came about. I only meant to
be matchmaking, and all at once it turned out quite differently.
Possibly against my own will..."
She flushed and stopped.
"Oh, they feel it immediately!" said Dolly.
{PART_ONE|CHAPTER_XXVIII ^paragraph 25}
"But I should be in despair if there were anything serious in it
on his side," Anna interrupted her. "And I'm certain it will all be
forgotten, and Kitty will leave off hating me."
"All the same, Anna, to tell you the truth, I'm not very anxious for
this marriage for Kitty. And it's better it should come to nothing, if
he, Vronsky, is capable of falling in love with you in a single day."
"Oh, heavens, that would be too silly!" said Anna, and again a
deep flush of pleasure appeared on her face, as she heard the idea
that absorbed her put into words. "And so here I am, going away,
having made an enemy of Kitty, whom I liked so