" Without answering her husband, Anna lifted her opera glass and gazed towards the place where Vronsky had fallen; but it was so far off, and there was such a crowd of people about it, that she could make out nothing.

She laid down the opera glass, and would have moved away, but at that moment an officer galloped up and made some announcement to the Tsar.

Anna craned forward, listening.

"Stiva! Stiva!" she cried to her brother.

But her brother did not hear her.