Anna Karenina Page #4

Anna turns the page, reads on, concerned.

FLASH BACK-- SHORT, A BEAT OR TWO--

INT. LINEN CLOSET, OBLONSKY HOUSE--DAY

Still kissing, Oblonsky hoists up her skirts.

BACK TO SCENE:

Anna turns to the second page.

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FLASH BACK-- SHORT

INT. BEDROOM LEVEL, OBLONSKY HOUSE--NIGHT

Oblonsky, coming in quietly and late from a night on the town, enters his

dressing room. He stops. He smiles a foolish apologetic smile.

REVERSE-- (DRESSING ROOM)

Dolly is waiting for him, shocked, enraged, holding out a billet-doux on

pink paper:
a love note.

BACK TO SCENE:

Anna speaks as in exasperation to a naughty child.

ANNA:

Tsk, oh . . . Stiva!

INT. KARENIN'S STUDY, KARENIN HOUSE--DAY

ANNA:

. . . and Dolly found a note from the

governess.

Anna is speaking to her husband "confidentially." Karenin, a busy man,

drains his coffee cup and hands it (as with Oblonsky and Matvey) to his

valet, Korney, who bows and withdraws. Karenin continues transferring

papers from his desk to his portfolio . . .

Which done, he nods to his private secretary, Mikhail Slyudin, who comes

forward to receive it, bows and leaves.

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KARENIN:

Well . . . ?

Karenin is twenty years older than Anna and a senior figure in govern-

ment. He has an unattractive reedy voice and is pleased with himself as a

model of probity. He has the habit of cracking his knuckles.

ANNA:

Stiva wants me to come to Moscow . . . to

persuade Dolly to forgive him.

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