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"Stiva gossiped about it all. And I should be so glad ... I

traveled yesterday with Vronsky's mother," she went on; "and his

mother talked without a pause of him, he's her favorite. I know

mothers are partial, but...."

"What did his mother tell you?"

"Oh, a great deal! And I know that he's her favorite; still one

can see how chivalrous he is.... Well, for instance, she told me

that he had wanted to give up all his property to his brother,

that he had done something extraordinary when he was quite a

child, saved a woman out of the water. He's a hero, in fact,"

said Anna, smiling and recollecting the two hundred roubles he

had given at the station.

But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles. For

some reason it was disagreeable to her to think of it. She felt

that there was something that had to do with her in it, and

something that ought not to have been.