When they rose from table and the ladies had left the room, Pestsov did not follow them but turned to Karenin and began to state the chief cause of inequality. The inequality between husband and wife, in his opinion, lay in the fact that the infidelity of a wife and that of a husband were unequally punished both by law and by public opinion.
Cuando se levantaron de la mesa y las señoras salieron del comedor, Peszov no las siguió y se dirigió a Karenin exponiéndole el motivo esencial de aquella desigualdad, que consistía, según él, en que las infidelidades de marido y mujer se castigan de modo distinto por la ley y por la opinión pública.