This is the first time you have slept quietly.

Be silent if you don't wish to do yourself an injury." But Taras still tried to collect his thoughts and to recall what had passed.

"Well, the Lyakhs must have surrounded and captured me.

I had no chance of fighting my way clear from the throng." "Be silent, I tell you, you devil's brat!" cried Tovkatch angrily, as a nurse, driven beyond her patience, cries out at her unruly charge.

"What good will it do you to know how you got away?
It is enough that you did get away.