Come along!
Curtain.
ACT III
Scene 1
Prince Abrézkov, a sixty-year-old bachelor with moustaches, a retired army man, elegant, very dignified and melancholy-looking. Anna Dmítrievna Karénina (Victor's mother), a fifty-year-old “grande dame” who tries to appear younger, and intersperses her remarks with French expressions.
Anna Dmítrievna's sitting-room, furnished with expensive simplicity, and filled with souvenirs.
Anna Dmítrievna is writing. Footman enters.
FOOTMAN. Prince Abrézkov …
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. Yes, certainly … [Turns round and touches herself up before the looking-glass].