" Joseph Alexeevich's face had looked young and bright.

That day I received a letter from my benefactor in which he wrote about "conjugal duties.

" 9th December I had a dream from which I awoke with a throbbing heart.

I saw that I was in Moscow in my house, in the big sitting room, and Joseph Alexeevich came in from the drawing room.

I seemed to know at once that the process of regeneration had already taken place in him, and I rushed to meet him.