Dolly observed that at this point his explanation was confused, and she could not quite understand why he had wandered from the point, but she felt that having once begun to speak of his intimate affairs, of which he could not speak to Anna, he was now telling her everything, and that the question of his work in the country belonged to the same category of intimate thoughts as the question of his relations with Anna.
Dar’ja Aleksandrovna notò che in questo punto della spiegazione egli si confondeva, e a lei non era possibile capire bene la digressione, ma sentiva che, messosi una volta a parlare dei suoi rapporti intimi, di cui non poteva parlare con Anna, egli adesso rivelava tutto, e la questione della sua attività in campagna rientrava nello stesso reparto di pensieri intimi, così come la questione dei suoi rapporti con Anna.