Anna Karenina Page #4

that has something fine

and grand about it.

It could never be ridiculous.

Next you'll be telling me

that young girls should be

virtuous, women chaste,

men virile, and children should be

brought up

to pay their debts and earn their

bread and all the other nonsense.

But look at them...

Karenin,

that awful Lydia lvanovna.

So old-fashioned,

so stuffy.

They surround her.

When I am old and ugly,

I'll become like them.

For a beautiful woman

like Anna, it is too soon

for her spirit to be crushed

by such boredom.

We must rescue her

before it is too late.

Come to my house

on Saturday.

Is it true that the younger Vlassiev

girl is going to marry Topov?

Yes, they say its

quite settled.

I am surprised at her parents.

I heard it was a love match.

A love match? What antediluvian

ideas you have.

Who talks of love nowadays?

That foolish old customs

not left us yet.

The only happy marriages are

marriages of convenience

where both parties have sown

their wild oats.

In my young days, I was

in love with a deacon.

I didnt know that

it did me any good.

No, but joking apart.

I believe that

before one can know

what love really is,

one must have a fall

and pick oneself up again.

Even after marriage?

Lts never too late.

I've been wanting to tell you that you

behaved badly, very badly, indeed.

You think I dont know

that I behaved badly?

But who made me?

How can you say that?

You know why.

That only shows

you have no heart.

I came here tonight knowing

that I would meet you

to make it perfectly clear

this must stop.

You make me feel as if

I was guilty of something.

What do you

want me to do?

I want you to go

to Moscow and...

You dont want that.

Then do this for me.

Never utter

those words again.

And let us

be good friends.

Friends

we shall never be.

You know that.

There is only one way

we can be happy.

I have nothing left

but you. Remember that.

Nothing matters anymore...

Not even life...

for one moment

of happiness like this.

Happiness?

Dont ever

speak of it again.

I have to warn you.

Warn me?

What about?

That by thoughtlessness and

indiscretion, you may cause yourself

to be talked about

in society.

Youre beginning

to attract attention.

I'm sure

theyre only rumors.

You are always like that.

You dont like me to be dull,

and then you dont like it

when I go out

and enjoy myself.

Stop it. You Know

I cant stand it.

And I would like to know

what all this is about.

Your feelings are the affair

of your own conscience,

but I am duty-bound to point out

to you your duties.

Our lives have been joined

not by man but by God.

Only a crime

can sever that union.

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