He looked about distractedly and screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun.

He was entirely absorbed by two considerations: his wife's guilt, of which after his sleepless night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of Dolokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was nothing to him....

" I should perhaps have done the same thing in his place," thought Pierre.

" It's even certain that I should have done the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee.