All that day, when talking to the steward and the peasants and at home with his wife, Dolly, her children, and his father-in-law, Levin's thoughts were busy with the one and only subject, outside his farming, that interested him at this time, and in everything he sought its relation to his questions: 'What am I?
Y durante todo este día, hablando con el encargado y los campesinos, charlando, en su casa, con su mujer, con Dolly, con los hijos de ésta o con su suegro, Levin pensaba, además, relacionándolo todo con esta cuestión, en las preguntas que le inquietaban: «¿Qué soy yo?