Anna Karenina Page #7

If there's anything left of the feeling...

This is unbearable.

Go, then.

Do as you like.

Anna, we...

Well, then...

goodbye.

He left me without a kind word.

Don't worry, madam.

I must go after him.

I must see him before he goes.

We can't part like this.

He hates me. He mustn't hate me.

I must see him before he goes.

Go at once to Moscow.

Take this letter to Count Vronsky.

He's at his mother's.

Bring the answer to Prince Oblonsky's.

I'm going there.

Well, well, Anna. Nice to see you.

Please come up.

Dolly is waiting for you.

Kitty and Levin are staying with us,

and their new baby.

You knew Kitty had a baby?

Yes, I knew it.

- Oh, Dolly.

- Oh, Aunt Anna.

How are you, Anna?

I had no idea you were in Moscow.

I'm just passing through.

Tania and Grisha.

I'm happy to see you, Kitty.

What a beautiful baby.

- Bless you both.

- Thank you, Anna.

I think I'll put him to bed now,

if you'll excuse me.

Anna Arkadyevna, it's good to see you.

- Thank you.

- Did you bring us anything...

- from St. Petersburg?

- I didn't come from St. Petersburg.

Did you bring us anything

from any place?

- Grisha, be quiet.

- I didn't bring them anything.

How is Sergei? Is he big?

Why didn't you bring Sergei

to visit us?

Last time you were here,

you said you would.

Quiet, children. Will you excuse me?

I'll take them to their room.

- Of course.

- I'll be right back. Come, children.

- Will you come and see us in our nursery?

- Yes, I will.

Anna Arkadyevna.

We haven't met since

the Korsunskys' ball. Do you remember?

That night changed all my life.

- Mine also.

- I've thought of you so often...

and hoped you were well and happy.

Thank you, Konstantin Dmitrich.

You two will want to talk.

- Will you forgive me?

- Certainly.

Well, Anna. Well, well.

We're a busy household, as you see.

You say you're going on a journey?

Lucky Anna.

Movement, change, excitement...

while I'm tied down,

nose to the grindstone.

Poor Stiva.

- Hasn't there been a message for me?

- A message?

Never mind.

Have you taken any steps

to alter Karenin's attitude?

Oh, no. It's of no use.

Anyhow, it... It doesn't matter.

I see Karenin's point,

the sanctity of the home.

There is such a thing, Anna, and it

must be preserved, even in these times.

Moral effect on the children.

Moral effect on the public.

Yes, that's very important.

Oh, Dolly, I leave you now

to entertain our brilliant bird of passage.

And by the way,

I shan't be dining at home tonight.

I've an important engagement.

Goodbye, Anna. Don't worry.

Things will straighten themselves out.

They always do. Goodbye.

Goodbye, Stiva.

Goodbye, my dear.

Well, Anna, as you see,

Stiva hasn't changed. Only I change.

You look very well, Dolly.

- And you? How are you?

- I am well.

You know, Anna,

I often think about our lives.

It was you who reconciled me to Stiva.

If not for you, I might have left him.

It was on that visit you met Vronsky,

wasn't it?

Yes, it was then.

Sometimes I think...

I compare my life to yours.

You travel, you go to Italy,

you do what you like.

You are loved. While I...

No ecstasy, no glamour,

all the things you have.

And Sergei?

- What of him?

- I don't see him.

Karenin won't let me see him.

That must be hard.

Well, whatever way one lives,

there's a penalty, I suppose.

Madam Karenina's butler

wants to see her.

Excuse me, Dolly.

I'm waiting for a message.

- You have a message for me?

- No, I was unable to deliver your letter.

Why?

Count Vronsky had just left

for the station.

Thank you, I shan't need you.

What's the matter, Anna?

Is something wrong?

No.

No, I have to go to the station.

Then goodbye, Anna.

A pleasant journey.

- I'm sorry that we...

- Don't bother. Goodbye.

- Where's Anna?

- Gone.

Oh, and I wanted to...

She's just the same, isn't she?

So lovely, so charming.

- But you know, Dolly, there's something.

- Yes, did you feel it?

Something piteous.

Awfully piteous.

Yes, for a moment just now,

I fancied she was almost crying.

Whatever she may have done...

there was something in her look

which tells me she's paying for it.

It's sad to have one's son go to war.

But I'm glad to see him back in uniform.

Vronsky, can't you forget?

You're a young man yet,

your life's before you.

- Can't you forget?

- I'll tell you what I can't forget.

That the last time we were together...

when she turned to me

with pleading eyes...

she wanted sympathy

or a kind word.

I didn't give it to her. I didn't speak.

I just turned away.

Would it have mattered if you had?

Well, perhaps not.

But I shouldn't have

this awful sense that...

This awful guilt...

which I know

will never leave me. Never.

It was fated.

She was doomed.

I didn't turn to her.

I remember I felt suddenly

I must ask her forgiveness.

And then, immediately, I...

I hardened my heart.

For this, I shall never forgive myself.

This I... I shall never forget.

She's forgotten, and she's forgiven.

Do you think so?

I'm sure.

Well, who knows?

Who knows?

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