"Matrona is a good woman, but she has one fault: she has no imagination, Nastenka, absolutely none; but that doesn't matter."
"That's all right—they can live together; only you must move to us to-morrow."
"To you? How so? All right, I am ready."
"Yes, hire a room from us. We have a top floor, it's empty. We had an old lady lodging there, but she has gone away; and I know granny would like to have a young man. I said to her, 'Why a young man?' And she said, 'Oh, because I am old; only don't you fancy, Nastenka, that I want him as a husband for you.' So I guessed it was with that idea."
"Oh, Nastenka!"
And we both laughed.
"Come, that's enough, that's enough. But where do you live? I've forgotten."
"Over that way, near X bridge, Barannikov's Buildings."
"It's that big house?"
"Yes, that big house."