Anna Karenina Part 4 Chapter 17

In which Alexey Alexandrovitch wrestles with the torment of receiving his wife’s desperate telegram amid a competing professional disappointment, leading him to journey to Petersburg with a heart full of conflicted hope and dread. There, confronted by the frailty and spiritedness of his wife’s fevered state, he discovers a profound capacity for forgiveness that transcends his earlier bitterness, offering a solemn reconciliation amid the looming shadow of mortality.