On the third day after his quarrel with his wife, Prince Stephen Arkadyevich Oblonsky – Steve, as he was called in his set in Society – woke up at his usual time, eight o'clock, not in his wife's bedroom but on the morocco leather-covered sofa in his study.
Tre giorni dopo il litigio, il principe Stepan Arkad’ic Oblonskij — Stiva, com’era chiamato in società — all’ora solita, cioè alle otto del mattino, si svegliò non nella camera della moglie, ma nello studio, sul divano marocchino.