Anna returns to her hotel room so dazed she does not know why she is there. Despite her intense
longing, and having prepared her emotions for the meeting, she has been unable to foresee how
violently the encounter would affect her. Now the nurse brings in the newly dressed baby girl, whose
round pink face wreathes in smiles when she sees her mother. Yet Anna feels her love for little Ani is
nowhere as intense as that reserved for her son, the first child on whom she lavished all the affection
she could not give its father.
Gazing at her son's photograph, she sees a picture of Vronsky on the same page of the album,
suddenly remembering he is the cause of her present misery. Along with a surge of love for Vronsky,
she reproaches him in her mind for not being here to share her unhappiness. Perhaps he does not
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- Fall '09
- Bost
- Vronsky, newly dressed baby, pink face wreathes, separate hotel suites
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