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But of late new inner relations had arisen between him and her,

which frightened Vronsky by their indefiniteness. Only the day

before she had told him that she was with child. And he felt that

this fact and what she expected of him called for something not

fully defined in that code of principles by which he had hitherto

steered his course in life. And he had been indeed caught

unawares, and at the first moment when she spoke to him of her

position, his heart had prompted him to beg her to leave her

husband. He had said that, but now thinking things over he saw

clearly that it would be better to manage to avoid that; and at

the same time, as he told himself so, he was afraid whether it

was not wrong.