His brother, however, having come to see him next morning, asked about her, and Alexis Vronsky told him frankly that he regarded his union with her as a marriage, that he hoped to arrange a divorce for her, and would then marry her, and that meanwhile he considered her his wife, just like any other wife, and he asked his brother to say so to their mother and to his own wife.
Alexey Vronsky le declaró francamente que consideraba sus relaciones con Ana como un matrimonio legal y que esperaba arreglar el divorcio y casarse entonces, pero que para él Ana era ya su mujer como cualquier otra, y le rogaba que lo dijese así a su madre y a su cuñada.