On seeing Levin she smiled, and asked him to come into the little drawing room, where he heard voices.

In this room there were sitting in armchairs the two daughters of the countess, and a Moscow colonel, whom Levin knew.

Levin went up, greeted them, and sat down beside the sofa with his hat on his knees.

"How is your wife? Have you been at the concert? We couldn't go.