It was Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock.

Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.

Stepan Arkadyevitch was fond of a joke: "And maybe she will come round! That's a good expression, '_come round,_'" he thought.

" I must repeat that.

" "Matvey!" he shouted.