- Anna falls apart very visibly after Vronsky is thrown down.
- Karenin offers to escort her out twice. Both times she refuses, and actually recoils in revulsion from his touch on her arm.
- Anna listens to the conversation, trying to get news about Vronsky's well-being.
- Finally an officer tells her group of friends that Vronsky is unhurt.
- Anna starts to cry.
- For the third time, Karenin offers to escort her out of the premises.
- Princess Betsy tries to intervene, but Karenin insists on taking his wife home.
- Anna is still visibly shaken.
- As Karenin and Anna drive home in their carriage, he opens a conversation about Anna and Vronsky by rebuking Anna for her public display of distress and emotion regarding Vronsky.
- Anna does not respond, and for a wild moment Karenin believes that all his suspicions are false, and that she's not in love with someone else.
- Finally Anna tells her husband that she is in love with Vronsky, that she is his mistress, and that she hates Karenin.
- Karenin freezes up, and all he asks is that Anna maintain appearances until he figures out what he wants to do.
- Vronsky sends Anna a note. He's still going over tonight. Anna is excited to see him.
- Karenin already feels like a distant memory to Anna.