I suppose you know, granny, that they want to marry ?" "Who ?" "She and Pavel.

Yes, indeed! But so far they have not yet been able.
When he is free, she is in prison, and vice versa." Yegor laughed.
"I didn't know it!" the mother replied after a pause.

"Pasha never speaks about himself." Now she felt a still greater pity for the girl, and looking at her guest with involuntary hostility, she said: "You ought to have seen her home." "Impossible!" Yegor answered calmly.

"I have a heap of work to do here, and the whole day to-morrow, from early morning, I shall have to walk and walk and walk.

No easy job, considering my asthma." "She's a fine girl!" said the mother, vaguely thinking of what Yegor had told her.