Managing Jealousy
Anna and Vronsky sit down to dinner in the lamplight. Her first words punish him for being late. He met Karenin in the doorway, though the husband was supposed to be at the council all evening. She tracks every hour. She says a woman can never forget that. He knows what binds him cannot be broken. She is already listening to the new life within her.
Key Insight
Jealousy starts as timekeeping. A late door is not a delayed council. It is a plot. Anna cannot let an hour stay ordinary.
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