Anna Karenina Page #7

How do you?

Madame, please.

Marietta, you will take care of him? Yes.

He won't forget me?

No, madame.

How dare you enter this house?

How dared you tell a child

that his mother was dead?

What should I have told him? That

she had run away with her lover?

I can only conclude that the

kind of life you have chosen...

has affected

your principles.

Alexey alexandrovitch,

will you consent to a divorce?

I no longer ask for my child.

I beseech you to give me

this last chance at happiness.

It seems to me that you have

everything you yourself have desired.

Will you consent?

You surely cannot refuse me.

I cannot act against

my religious convictions.

I consider

the matter closed.

Please understand,

i cannot

my daughters are growing up.

I have to move in society

for my husband's sake.

I cannot ask her to my home.

She's no worse than hundreds

of people you do receive.

And you were the first to find her

charming. As a traveling companion, yes.

Not as my son's mistress. In

the eyes of god, she's my wife.

Let's call things

by their proper names.

Sorry, I didn't know... i

was on the point of leaving.

Good-bye, my dear son.

I know the way out.

Good-bye,

Anna arkadyevna.

Did you have a pleasant day?

Tell me where you've been.

What was your mother doing here,

trying to take you away from me?

No, Anna. Please.

She's like the rest of them

with their hands full of mud.

Anna, I beg you. Don't speak

like that about my mother.

Oh, I assure you, it's a matter

of complete indifference to me...

what your mother thinks,

or whom she wants you to marry.

- Marry?

- I've heard about the little princess sorokina.

Anna.

What's the matter with you?

I feel I cannot go on living like

this any longer, hiding from everyone.

Alexey, let us go

to the opera tonight.

Why, you know

that's out of the question.

Why?

Well,

as a matter of fact,

i shall have to go.

My mother has asked me

to meet her there.

But you know why we cannot go there

together. I don't want to know.

What other people may say

or think is unimportant.

We love each other and

nothing else should matter.

Why can't we go?

Don't you understand that...

no, I don't understand.

All right. Go with your

mother. I shall go alone.

No, not alone. Nathalia will

be delighted to come with me.

And if she can't, I'm... I'm sure

there are plenty of people who will.

There's no one like

madame patti.

She must have the world's

most beautiful voice.

Alexey, our little princess

sorokina is talking to you.

Oh, I beg your pardon,

princess.

Yes, madame patti

has a very beautiful voice.

My dear, I'm afraid

he's lost to you and...

and lost to me as well.

It's your fault, all yours. I told you

not to come. I knew it would be unpleasant.

Unpleasant? As long as i

live, I shall never forget it.

It was hideous. She said it

was a disgrace to sit beside me.

Just the words of a stupid

woman. Why let them distress you?

It doesn't work with me

in this intolerable position.

You're what brought me to this. I've always

known we must never risk insult, never provoke it.

You say "we," but you mean me. You

are free to go among your friends.

It is I who must

stay in the shadows.

Do I behave as if I were free? In

other words, you are a prisoner?

You're doing your best to create a prison

for us both. So you think it is a prison?

You goad me into saying things

with this insane desire for strife.

I don't even know what it is, but

i feel you are hostile towards me.

If only you knew

how near I am to calamity,

how afraid I am,

afraid of myself.

Alexey, you haven't changed

towards me, have you?

Anna, you know my feelings

for you can never change.

But, my dearest, you must write to

karenin and ask him for a divorce.

What is it?

L-i am sure that he will

refuse. No, he will not refuse.

He will accept, and then we can

go together wherever we please,

get married and live.

Yes. Yes, all right.

All right.

I will write to him.

But I would rather not wait for

his answer in st. Petersburg.

There is nothing to keep

us here anymore. Nothing.

Let us go to moscow. All right,

my darling. Whenever you please.

Tomorrow, then.

Tomorrow.

Oh, forgive me...

for being so thoughtless,

selfish and wretched.

I love you, alexey.

I love you.

This telegram came for

your excellency. Thank you.

Who is it from?

What?

The telegram.

Oh, it's from my mother.

Oh. What does she say?

She wants me to return to st. Petersburg

to settle sothing about the estate.

But we've only just left.

It's an excuse.

I know that if you go to st.

Petersburg, you will not come back.

Do be reasonable. It's...

it's purely a business matter,

a couple of days at the most.

All right. Leave me. Go to

st. Petersburg if you want to.

We are not chained together.

Anna, what's all this about?

It's only the uncertainty of your

position that makes you suspicious.

Uncertainty?

What do you mean?

I am completely in your power.

What is uncertain about that?

Anna, darling. As soon as we hear

about the divorce, we'll get married.

And then you won't have to

torture yourself any longer.

Don't talk to me

about the divorce.

I've decided not to let it influence my

life anymore. Why should you care about it?

Haven't you written

to karenin?

No.

No?

Why?

Why, Anna? If he agreed to a divorce,

you would feel forced to marry me.

I don't want to impose that

sort of obligation on you,

especially now.

Now?

When there is this conspiracy afoot

between yourself and your mother.

What conspiracy? That you should

marry the princess sorokina.

That's too ridiculous even for

argument. I refuse to argue with you.

We want a divorce.

We need it desperately.

Need it? Why has it

suddenly become so necessary?

Anna, you know as well as

i do. It goes on and on.

I want you to know this. I absolutely refuse

to take any part in these arguments again.

Has princess oblonsky visitors?

Yes, milady.

Prince and princess shcherbatsky

and mr. And mrs. Levin are here.

Oh, then I had...

Anna, how nice to see you.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you had

visitors. I won't disturb you.

But it's only kitty and the

family. Of course you must stay.

No, I... I'd rather not

see anyone just now.

Besides, they wouldn't

want to see me.

Anna, is anything wrong?

You look so strange.

Dolly, I had to come and see

someone, and you were the only person.

You don't despise me

and condemn me too, do you?

My dear, I love you

and I always will.

Surely, he loves you too.

I don't know.

I worry about it

night and day.

Sometimes I think

I'm losing him,

that we're being

irresistibly driven apart.

Darling, I daren't tell him that

i have been to see my husband,

and that he has

refused me a divorce.

Then... you can't

get married.

Oh, you needn't worry.

I won't ask you to receive me.

Oh. You know that you'll

always be welcome in my house.

It's kitty's baby. Do come and see

him. He's a wonderful little boy.

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