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Anna had at first avoided as far as she could Princess

Tverskaya's world, because it necessitated an expenditure beyond

her means, and besides in her heart she preferred the first

circle. But since her visit to Moscow she had done quite the

contrary. She avoided her serious-minded friends, and went out

into the fashionable world. There she met Vronsky, and

experienced an agitating joy at those meetings. She met Vronsky

specially often at Betsy's for Betsy was a Vronsky by birth and

his cousin. Vronsky was everywhere where he had any chance of

meeting Anna, and speaking to her, when he could, of his love.

She gave him no encouragement, but every time she met him there

surged up in her heart that same feeling of quickened life that

had come upon her that day in the railway carriage when she saw

him for the first time. She was conscious herself that her

delight sparkled in her eyes and curved her lips into a smile,

and she could not quench the expression of this delight.