

After lunch, Volodya goes to visit Zinaida, but she does not go out to him.

The next day, his father asked him about Zasekin, then he went to them. Volodya feels happy: he has a lot to kiss Zinaida’s pen, all the evening Zinaida does not let him go and gives him preference over others.

Lushin, poet Maidanov, Count Malevsky, retired captain Nirmatsky and hussar Belovzorov. She does not pay attention to Volodya, however, when she leaves she whispers to him that he should come to them in the evening.Īppearing to Zasekin, Volodya gets acquainted with the admirers of the princess: Dr. Snufflily, fidgets in a chair, turns, complains of poverty and talks about her endless bills, and the princess, on the contrary, is majestic – she talks all her dinner with Volodin’s father in French, but looks at him hostilely.
