The German was left unsatisfied with the frigidity of
Manka and ordered the housekeeper to be summoned to him.
"Housekeeper dear, my husband demands your presence!" said Manya,
coming into the drawing room and fixing her hair before a mirror.
Zociya went away, then returned afterwards and called Pasha out
into the corridor. Later she came back into the drawing room, but
alone.
"How is it, Manka, that you haven't pleased your cavalier?" she
asked with laughter. "He complains about you: 'This,' he says, 'is
no woman, but some log of wood, a piece of ice.' I sent him
Pashka."
"Eh, what a disgusting man!" Manka puckered up her face and spat
aside. "Butts in with his conversations. Asks: 'Do you feel when I
kiss you? Do you feel a pleasant excitement?' An old hound. 'I'll
take you,' he says, 'and set you up!'"
"They all say that," remarked Zoe indifferently.
But Jennie, who since morning has been in an evil mood, suddenly
flared up.
"Oh, the sneak, the big, miserable sneak that he is!" she
exclaimed, turning red and energetically putting her hands to her
sides.
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