His brother, however, having come to see him next morning, asked about her, and Alexis Vronsky told him frankly that he regarded his union with her as a marriage, that he hoped to arrange a divorce for her, and would then marry her, and that meanwhile he considered her his wife, just like any other wife, and he asked his brother to say so to their mother and to his own wife.
Il fratello poi, venuto il giorno dopo da Vronskij, di mattina, domandò di lei, e Aleksej Vronskij gli disse francamente che considerava la propria relazione con la Karenina come un matrimonio, che sperava di render possibile il divorzio e di sposarla, e che fino a quel momento la considerava come sua moglie, e lo pregava di riferire ciò alla madre e a sua moglie.