" "Oh, come now, please don't say any harm of Countess Lidia Ivanovna.

" "Why, is there any harm in her being in love with Karenin?" "But is it true Madame Karenina's here?" "Well, not here in the palace, but in Petersburg.

I met her yesterday with Alexey Vronsky, _bras dessous, bras dessous_, in the Morsky.