Deputy Chiefs of Staff Steve Ricchetti and Maria Echaveste

father, sticking her hands in her pockets, puffing her cheeks, and

uttering vague sounds resembling "poof! poof!" amid loud laughter from

all the lodgers, who purposely encouraged Amalia Ivanovna, hoping

But this was too much for Katerina Ivanovna, and she at once

declared, so that all could hear, that Amalia Ivanovna probably

never had a father, but was simply a drunken Petersburg Finn, and

had certainly once been a cook and probably something worse. Amalia

Ivanovna turned as red as a lobster and squealed that perhaps Katerina