On the day when, in the ballroom of the house in Arbat Street, she in her brown dress had gone up to him and silently plighted herself to him, on that day and in that hour a complete rupture seemed to have taken place within her soul between her former life and this other new and entirely unknown life – although in fact the old life still went on.
Nell’animo suo, in quel giorno in cui, in abito marrone, nella sala della casa sull’Arbat, si era avvicinata a lui in silenzio e gli si era data, nell’animo suo, in quel giorno e in quell’ora si era compiuto un completo distacco da tutta la sua vita di prima ed era cominciata, pur continuando in realtà l’antica, un’altra vita, completamente nuova, completamente sconosciuta.