He felt that by not having answered Dolly Oblonskaya's letter (a rudeness he could not remember without blushing) he had burned his boats and could never visit there again.
Comprendió que al cometer la grosería, de la que no podía acordarse sin enrojecer de vergüenza, de no contestar a Daria Alejandrovna, había quemado sus naves y no podría volver nunca a casa de los Oblonsky.