“Where are you going to put the princess?” said Vronsky in French, addressing Anna, and without waiting for a reply, he once more greeted Darya Alexandrovna, and this time he kissed her hand. “I think the big balcony room.”
“Oh, no, that’s too far off! Better in the corner room, we shall see each other more. Come, let’s go up,” said Anna, as she gave her favorite horse the sugar the footman had brought her.
“ Et vous oubliez votre devoir ,” she said to Veslovsky, who came out too on the steps.
“ Pardon, j’en ai tout plein les poches ,” he answered, smiling, putting his fingers in his waistcoat pocket.
“ Mais vous venez trop tard ,” she said, rubbing her handkerchief on her hand, which the horse had made wet in taking the sugar.
Anna turned to Dolly. “You can stay some time? For one day only? That’s impossible!”
“I promised to be