Anna has a child to Vronsky and gets very sick immediately after, feeling full of remorse on her death bed she tells her husband to come home and forgive her – which he does, overcome himself by her situation and bleiving she’ll die.
But Anna doesn’t die. Instead, she recovers, Vronsky quits the army and they go travelling abroad together! Shock!
Meanwhile Kitty and Levin have just got married, so much happiness and good will.
I’m loving this book! It’s taking me a while to get through it, but that’s what Tolstoy’s all about, right? It’s a beautiful read anyway, not at all difficult, the translators have done an excellent job to make it flow so well.
And Toby’s going well, growing fast, getting cuter every minute, almost eight weeks old now. He cries a lot some days and sleeps well other days. Today’s a crying day, which is hard for Leash. She feels she’s tried every different combination of feed/play/sleep/bath etc and there’s no pattern emerging – sometimes he’s fine, sometimes he’s not – and while I think it’s probably normal, the fact that he won’t settle into a routine or predictable behaviour stresses us both just a bit. Especially because we did this parenting course that promoted the importance of ‘flexible routine’, and a lot of the ‘routine’ part of what they said should happen just hasn’t for our little man. At least he’s got the ‘flexible’ part going well!
