How many are you a member of, Nikolay Ivanitch?" she turned to Sviazhsky--"over twenty, I fancy.

" Anna spoke lightly, but irritation could be discerned in her tone.

Darya Alexandrovna, watching Anna and Vronsky attentively, detected it instantly.

She noticed, too, that as she spoke Vronsky's face had immediately taken a serious and obstinate expression.

Noticing this, and that Princess Varvara at once made haste to change the conversation by talking of Petersburg acquaintances, and remembering what Vronsky had without apparent connection said in the garden of his work in the country, Dolly surmised that this question of public activity was connected with some deep private disagreement between Anna and Vronsky.