He listened and talked, and all the time thought of her, of her inner life, trying to guess her feelings. And he, who had formerly judged her so severely, now by some strange process of reasoning justified her and at the same time pitied her and feared that Vronsky did not fully understand her.
Y él, que antes la juzgaba con severidad, ahora la justificaba y, al mismo tiempo, la compadecía; y la idea de que Vronsky no llegara a comprenderla completamente le oprimía el alma. Habían dado ya las diez de la noche cuando Esteban Arkadievich se levantó para marcharse.