Anna Karenina Part 3, Chapter 18 Summary

The women guests to Princess Betsy's house are beautiful, striking, and have fabulously extravagant clothes.
Anna finds Liza Merkolov more attractive than Baroness Sappho.
Liza asks Anna her secret to never being bored.
Old Stremov makes a point of being particularly flattering and cordial to Anna.
Anna is pleased by this company – it's fun and easy, whereas what awaits her in Countess Vrede's garden is hard and difficult.
Nevertheless, Anna expresses her regrets and leaves for her rendezvous with Vronsky.