THE MISTAKE KARENIN HAD MADE when, preparing to see his wife, he had not considered the possibility either of her repentance being real or of her recovery, faced him in all its significance two months after his return from Moscow.
La equivocación cometida por Alexey Alejandrovich consistía en que, al prepararse a ver a su mujer, no pensó en la posibilidad de que su arrepentimiento pudiera ser sincero, de que él la perdonara y ella no muriese.