Nothing special was said during the quadrille: they talked in snatches about the Korsunskys, husband and wife, whom Vronsky very amusingly described as dear forty-year-old children, and about a proposed Stage Society, and only once did the conversation touch her to the quick – when he asked her about Levin, whether he was still in Moscow, and added that he had liked him very much.
Durante la quadriglia non fu detto nulla di particolare. La conversazione, smozzicata, si aggirò ora sui Korsunskij, marito e moglie, che Vronskij descriveva, con molta amenità, come cari ragazzi quarantenni, ora sul futuro teatro pubblico, e solo una volta la toccò nel vivo, quando egli le chiese se c’era Levin e soggiunse che gli era piaciuto molto.