LUCIE. What about?
ANNETTE. About a book he lent me.
LUCIE. What book?
ANNETTE. Anna Karenina. He liked Vronsky better than Peter Levin. He talked nonsense. He said he didn’t believe in Madame Karenina’s suicide. You remember, she throws herself under the wheels of the train Vronsky is going away in. Don’t you remember? It doesn’t matter.
LUCIE. And then?
ANNETTE. And then—there’s a ring—perhaps that’s the Bernins.
A silence. Catherine appears with a card.
LUCIE. Yes. It’s Madame Bernin.
ANNETTE. Oh! [Going to her room] You’ll come and fetch me presently.
LUCIE. Yes. [To Catherine] Show the lady in.