Chapter 200 — Anna Karenina

Leaving with Stiva into frosty air Levin thinks what a marvelous sweet and unhappy woman. Stiva says well didn't I tell you seeing Levin completely won over. Levin dreamily agrees extraordinary woman, not merely clever but extraordinarily clear and deep.

At home pity and wine succumbed to Anna's artful influence; he will avoid her yet confesses living so long in Moscow on conversation, eating, drinking he was degenerating. He tells Kitty everything, even simplest phrases, blushing; they talk till three o'clock, sufficiently reconciled to sleep.

Tolstoy balances Levin's enchantment with marital repair through exhaustive honesty, while Anna's pull remains dangerous.

Levin thinks what a marvelous sweet unhappy woman; Stiva says didn't I tell you. At home he tells Kitty everything, even simplest phrases, blushing; they talk till three, reconciled enough to sleep while Anna's pull remains dangerous.

Tolstoy closes the chapter on that beat without easy moral, only the next consequence waiting.

He counts minutes as roubles, helplessly, hating the luxury of a house where enchantment and marriage repair share one night.

Pity and wine succumbed to Anna's influence; exhaustive honesty with Kitty till three reconciles them enough to sleep.

The beat lands without easy moral.

Anna's pull remains dangerous even after marital repair through exhaustive honesty.