LISA. I am ashamed to say it, but I must confess that what I heard about that gipsy girl makes me feel quite free. Don't think it is jealousy; it isn't, but you know--it sets me free. I hardly know how to tell you.... KARÉNIN. You don't know how to tell me ... Why? LISA [smiling] Never mind! Only let me explain what I feel. The chief thing that tormented me was, that I felt I loved two men; and that meant that I was an immoral woman. KARÉNIN. _You_ immoral? LISA. But since I knew that he had got someone else, and that he therefore did not need me, I felt free, and felt that I might truthfully say that I love you. Now things are clear within me, and only my position torments me. This divorce! It is such torture--and then this waiting! KARÉNIN. It will soon, very soon, be settled. Besides his promise, I sent my secretary to him with the petition ready for signature, and told him not to leave till it is signed. If I did not know him so well, I should think he was purposely behaving as he does. LISA. He? No, it is the result both of his weakness and his honesty. He doesn't want to say what is not true. Only you were wrong to send him money. KARÉNIN. I had to. The want of it might be the cause of the delay. LISA. No, there is something bad about money. KARÉNIN. Well, anyhow, _he_ need not have been so punctilious ... LISA. How selfish we are becoming! KARÉNIN. Yes, I confess it. It's your own fault. After all that waiting, that hopelessness, I am now so happy! And happiness makes one selfish. It's your fault! LISA. Do you think it's you only? I too--I feel full of happiness, bathed in bliss! I have everything--Mísha has recovered, your mother likes me, and you--and above all, I, I love! KARÉNIN. Yes? And no repenting? No turning back? LISA. Since that day everything has changed in me. KARÉNIN. And will not change again? LISA. Never! I only wish you to have done with it all as completely as I have. Enter nurse, with baby. Lisa takes the baby on her lap. KARÉNIN. What wretched people we are! LISA [kissing baby] Why?