On the third day after his quarrel with his wife, Prince Stephen Arkadyevich Oblonsky – Steve, as he was called in his set in Society – woke up at his usual time, eight o'clock, not in his wife's bedroom but on the morocco leather-covered sofa in his study.
El tercer día después de la escena tenida con su mujer, el príncipe Esteban Arkadievich Oblonsky –Stiva, como le llamaban en sociedad–, al despertar a su hora de costumbre, es decir, a las ocho de la mañana, se halló, no en el dormitorio conyugal, sino en su despacho, tendido sobre el diván de cuero.