'Alexis Alexandrovich!' she said, studying his face and without dropping her eyes under his gaze fixed on her hair, 'I am a guilty woman and a bad one, but I am what I was before, as I then told you. I have come to tell you now I cannot make any change.'
–Alexey Alejandrovich –dijo, mirándole y sin bajar los ojos, mientras él dirigía los suyos al cabello de su esposa–, soy una mujer culpable, una mujer mala; pero soy la misma que era, la misma que le dije, y he venido para decirle que no puedo cambiar.