She remembered that partly sincere but greatly exaggerated role of a mother living for her son which she had assumed during the last five years; and felt with joy that in the position in which she found herself she had still one stay, independent of her relations with her husband and Vronsky. That stay was her son.
Se acordó del papel, en parte sincero, aunque más bien exagerado, de madre consagrada por completo a su hijo que viviera en aquellos últimos años, y notó con alegría que en el estado en que se encontraba aún poseía una fuerza independiente de la posición en que se hallara respecto a su marido y a Vronsky, y esta fuerza era su hijo.