I still believed the air campaign would work, and hoped

Once more her parched lips were covered with blood. She moved her

"So that's how you live, Sonia! Never once have I been in your

She looked at her with a face of suffering.

"We have been your ruin, Sonia. Polenka, Lida, Kolya, come here!

Well, here they are, Sonia, take them all! I hand them over to you,

I've had enough! The ball is over. (Cough!) Lay me down, let me die in

They laid her back on the pillow.

"What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to