LEVIN FELT INTOLERABLY BORED by the ladies that evening. He was more than ever excited by the thought that the dissatisfaction with work on the land which he now experienced was not an exceptional state of mind but the result of the condition of agriculture in Russia generally, and that some arrangement that would make the labourers work as they did for the peasant at the halfway-house was not an idle dream but a problem it was necessary to solve. And he felt that it could be solved, and that he must try to do it.
Aquella noche Levin se aburría terriblemente en compañía de las señoras; le agitaba el pensamiento de que la insatisfacción que sentía por los asuntos de sus tierras no era exclusiva suya sino general en toda Rusia; que encontrar una organización en la que los obreros trabajasen como en la propiedad del campesino que vivía a mitad de camino de casa Sviajsky no era una ilusión, sino un problema que había que resolver, que era posible resolver y que había que intentarlo.