Literature Has Become My Life.

There's Only One Degree Of Freshness — The First, Which Makes It Also The Last

Difficult Folk, These Women!

Foreign Visitors . . . How Impressed You All Are With Foreign Visitors! But They Come In Many Different Varieties.

The Procurator Studied The New Arrival With Avid, And Slightly Fearful Eyes. It Was The Kind Of Look One Gives Someone One Has Heard Of And Thought A Lot About, And Whom One Is Meeting For The First Time.

Margarita Was Never Short Of Money. She Could Buy Whatever She Liked. Her Husband Had Plenty Of Interesting Friends. Margarita Never Had To Cook. Margarita Knew Nothing Of The Horrors Of Living In A Shared Flat. In Short... Was She Happy? Not For A Moment.