Kitty knew that what she had said in her anger about the unfaithfulness of Dolly's husband and about her humiliation had cut her poor sister to the depths of her heart, but that she was forgiven; while Dolly on her side learnt all that she wanted to know, her suspicions were confirmed and she understood that Kitty's grief, her hopeless grief, was really caused by the fact that Levin had proposed to her and that she had rejected him, and now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.
Kitty veía que las palabras dichas a su hermana en aquel momento de acaloramiento, sobre las infidelidades de su marido y la humillación que implicaban, la habían herido en lo más profundo, no obstante lo cual la perdonaba. Y a su vez Dolly comprendió cuanto quería saber: comprendió que sus presunciones estaban justificadas, que la amargura, la incurable amargura de Kitty, consistía en que había rehusado la proposición de Levin para luego ser engañada por Vronsky; y comprendió también que Kitty ahora estaba a punto de odiar a Vronsky y amar a Levin.