'We came into Alexis's room to have a smoke,' she said in reply to Oblonsky's question whether he might smoke; and glancing at Levin, instead of asking him whether he smoked, she drew a tortoise-shell cigar-case nearer and took from it a straw cigarette.
–Ivan Petrovich y yo nos hemos quedado aquí en el despacho de Vronsky para poder fumar –dijo Ana a Esteban Arkadievich, que le preguntó si les estaba permitido fumar. Y, mirando a Levin y sin preguntarle si fumaba o no, cogió una lujosa pitillera y le alargó un cigarrillo.