Tief eingeprägt hatte sich ihm ein Gedanke, den Darja Alexandrowna ihm gegenüber in Moskau ausgesprochen hatte: daß er, wenn er sich zur Scheidung entschließe, dabei nur an sich denke und nicht daran, daß er Anna auf diese Weise unrettbar zugrunde richte.
What Dolly had said in Moscow, to the effect that in considering a divorce he was thinking of himself and not of Anna, who would then be irretrievably lost, had sunk into his heart. And having connected these words with his forgiveness and with his attachment to the children, he now understood them in his own way.