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Though Anna had obstinately and with exasperation contradicted

Vronsky when he told her their position was impossible, at the

bottom of her heart she regarded her own position as false and

dishonorable, and she longed with her whole soul to change it. On

the way home from the races she had told her husband the truth in

a moment of excitement, and in spite of the agony she had

suffered in doing so, she was glad of it. After her husband had

left her, she told herself that she was glad, that now everything

was made clear, and at least there would be no more lying and

deception. It seemed to her beyond doubt that her position was

now made clear forever. It might be bad, this new position, but

it would be clear; there would be no indefiniteness or falsehood

about it. The pain she had caused herself and her husband in

uttering those words would be rewarded now by everything being

made clear, she thought.