- Having found faith, Levin resolves to never quarrel with anyone again.
- Then he fights with the first person with whom he interacts: the coachman.
- When he gets back to the house, he learns that Kitty has taken Mitya out to the forest in order to escape the summer heat.
- Koznyshev notes that it's about to rain.
- Levin takes Koznyshev and Katavasov to see the beehive.
- Despite his failure to be perfect and never fight with anyone, he still believes that his soul experienced a profound epiphany, and as he watches the bees surround him, he knows that his spiritual strength will remain intact.