Anna Karenina -- Part I, Chapter IX

Levin goes ice skating with Kitty 

Levin leaves Koznyshev's place and heads to the skating lake, on the prowl for Kitty.  He's apprehensive and when he does find her.  And he should be apprehensive, because he's entering some major creep territory: the words "childish" and "girlish" appear enough to give you the sense that the narrator wants us to be a little uneasy at what's about to happen.  Maybe not, maybe culturally this was no big deal.  And really, it's been made clear that one of the reasons Levin is attracked to Kitty is because she simply the only sister left for him to marry.  Maybe we're not supposed to be creeped out.   

In the end of the chapter, it's kind of a moot point.  After skating with Kitty and saying how much he likes it when she "leans on him," Levin realizes that she's not reciprocating his hints of affection.  We then delve into the mind of Kitty, who, sure enough, thinks of Levin as a "dear brother."

Levin is a friend-zoned man walking, and he doesn't want to admit it to himself by the end of the chapter.  Oblonsky arrives, takes Levin to lunch, and the promise of meeting with Kitty and her mother again ring happily in the mind of the poor scruffy fella.    

She wonders if she's acted coquettishly, which I only point out because that's another word I used to totally mispronounce.