Anna Karenina

When they rose from table, Levin would have liked to follow Kitty into the drawing-room; but he was afraid she might dislike this, as too obviously paying her attention. He remained in the little ring of men, taking part in the general conversation, and without looking at Kitty, he was aware of her movements, her looks, and the place where she was in the drawing-room." Levin is constantly, almost magnetically aware of Kitty even without looking at her. "He did at once, and without the smallest effort, keep the promise he had made her—always to think well of all men, and to like everyone always." Love has effortlessly transformed his character. "The conversation fell on the village commune, in which Pestsov saw a sort of special principle, called by him the 'choral' principle. Levin did not agree with Pestsov, nor with his brother, who had a special attitude of his own, both admitting and not admitting the significance of th" -e commune. But Levin engages kindly, without his former argumentativeness. Eventually Levin and Kitty play a word game at a table, writing initial letters in chalk that the other must decode. He writes a complex question in initials. She reads it "over her arm" - reading the letters as he writes them. "And he wrote three letters. But he had hardly finished writing when she read them over her arm, and herself finished and wrote the answer, 'Yes.'" She answers "Yes" to his marriage proposal written in initials. "'You're playing _secrétaire_?' said the old prince. 'But we must really be getting along if you want to be in time at the theater.' Levin got up and escorted Kitty to the door." The old prince interrupts their private moment. "In their conversation everything had been said; it had been said that she loved him, and that she would tell her father and mother that he would come tomorrow morning." Through their chalk-letter game, they've become engaged. He'll come tomorrow to formalize it. This beautiful chapter shows their wordless communication and spiritual connection culminating in engagement.