But now, on her return from Moscow, that circle became unbearable to her. It seemed to her that she, and all of them, were only pretending, and she felt so bored and uncomfortable in that Society that she visited Lydia Ivanovna as rarely as possible.
Aleksej Aleksandrovic amava molto questo circolo, e Anna che sapeva trattare tutti, nei primi tempi della sua vita a Pietroburgo, si era fatta degli amici anche qui.