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"What is she vexed with him about?" thought Kitty, discerning

that Anna had intentionally not responded to Vronsky's bow.

Vronsky went up to Kitty reminding her of the first quadrille,

and expressing his regret that he had not seen her all this time.

Kitty gazed in admiration at Anna waltzing, and listened to him.

She expected him to ask her for a waltz, but he did not, and she

glanced wonderingly at him. He flushed slightly, and hurriedly

asked her to waltz, but he had only just put his arm round her

waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped.

Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and

long afterwards-for several years after-that look, full of love,

to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony

of shame.

"Pardon! pardon! Waltz! waltz!" shouted Korsunsky from the other

side of the room, and seizing the first young lady he came across

he began dancing himself.

Chapter 23