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Vronsky drove to the French theater, where he really had to see

the colonel of his regiment, who never missed a single

performance there. He wanted to see him, to report on the result

of his mediation, which had occupied and amused him for the last

three days. Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the

affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate

comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince

Kedrov. And what was most important, the interests of the

regiment were involved in it too.