Miss Brandon asked him if he would like to know Rudd.
"Is he very frightful?" he asked.
I said I did not think he was at all alarming.
Yes, he said, he would like to make his acquaintance. He had never met an English author.
"You won't mind his explaining the Russian character to you?" I said.
Kranitski said he would not mind that, and that as his mother was Italian, and as he had lived very little in Russia and spoke Russian badly, perhaps Mr. Rudd would not count him as a Russian.
Miss Brandon said that would make the explanation more complicated still.
[CHAPTER IV]
Life begins very early in the morning here. The water-drinkers and the bathers begin their day at half-past six. My day does not begin till half-past seven, as I don't drink many glasses of the water.
At seven o'clock the village bell rings for Mass.