How often during the eight years of happy married life with his wife, when he saw others who were unfaithful wives or deceived husbands, had Karenin said to himself, 'How could they let it come to that?
Antes, muchas veces, durante los ocho años de su vida de casado, tan dichosa, Alexey Alejandrovich, observando a las esposas infieles y a los maridos engañados, se había dicho: «¿Cómo es posible llegar a esto?