We're now back with the countess Rostova; that's the one Anna was visiting before she went to see Rich Uncle Cyril. Countess Rostova is very sad that Anna is so humiliatingly poor and takes it out on her poor maid. Then she calls her husband in and asks for money. Five hundred rubles, which the count increases to seven hundred. He asks Dmitri to fetch them. Dmitri is a 'man of good family who had been brought up in the count's house'. Why? Can his own good family not look after him? Is he a ward? What's up with Dmitri?
Dmitri begins to question the order, then catches sight of the count's face and just follows it. Countess Rostova hands it over to Anna when she comes back. The jammy little cow!
Then the countess and Anna cry together, because their beautiful innocent friendship has been sullied with money. Like how Anna has to think about Uncle Cyril's money, even though she really, truly, only goes to see him because she loves him.
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