'I am very grateful for your confidence, but...' he began in confusion, feeling with vexation that what he could so clearly decide within himself he was unable to discuss in the presence of the Princess Tverskaya, who appeared to him the personification of that coarse power which would rule his life in the eye of the world, and which prevented him from yielding to his feelings of love and forgiveness. He stopped and looked at the Princess.
–Le agradezco mucho su confianza, pero... –repuso Karenin, turbado, comprendiendo con enojo que lo que podía explicar y decir a solas no era posible ante Betsy. Esta se le presentaba en aquel momento como la personificación de aquella fuerza incontrastable que había de guiar su vida a los ojos del gran mundo, estorbándole el que se entregara libremente a sus sentimientos de perdón y de amor.