“Who is that behind you. Whom have you brought with you?” asked Leonti in terror.
“No one. Do you imagine there’s a ghost. Ah! there is someone scrambling up.”
“Boris, you? How did you happen to arrive together,” he exclaimed as Raisky sprang into the room.
Mark cast a hasty glance on Boris and turned to Leonti. “Give me another pair of trousers. Have you any wine in the house?
“What’s the matter, and where have you been?” asked Leonti suddenly, who had just noticed that Mark was covered up to the waist with wet and slime.
“Give me another pair of trousers quick,” said Mark impatiently. “What is the good of chattering?”
“I have no wine, because we drank it all at dinner, when Monsieur Charles was our guest.”
“Where do you keep your clothes?”
“My wife is asleep and I don’t know; you must ask Avdotya.”
“Fool! I will find them myself!”