The scenes in Tolstoy are constantly moving around the characters. He reminds us of the movement in the scene by having moving parts impose themselves upon the characters. Here, the child Grisha crawls into the dialogue and tugs on her aunt’s hair:
AK, p.74 : Dialogue: Kitty to Anna: Re: attendance at ball
“I’ll be very glad if you go. I’d like so much to see you at a ball.”
“At least, if I do go, I’ll be comforted at the thought that it will give you pleasure . . . Grisha, don’t fuss with it, please, it’s all disheveled as it is,” she said straightening a stray lock of hair Grisha was playing with.”
“I imagine you in lilac at the ball.”