Puck was a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, also known as Robin Goodfellow. A bit of a troublemaker in the play, he puts love-in-idleness juice on the eyes of Bottom[?] and then sticks an ass's head on him. He also sticks love-in-idleness in the eyes of the lovers.
... him in this plan, but, later that evening, Kitty rejects him in the expectation that Vronsky is about to propose to her.
The following morning Stiva and Vronsky ...