VIRGIN SOIL
'And you don't know me at all', Marianna interrupted. 'But there, wait a little. To-morrow, perhaps. Now I have to go to my mistress. Good-bye till to-morrow.'
Nezhdanov took two steps forward, but suddenly turned back. 'Oh, by the way, Marianna Vikentyevna . . . I have been continually meaning to ask you: won't you let me go to the school with you to see what you do there─before it's shut?'
'Certainly.. . . But it's not of the school that I wanted to talk to you.'
'What, then?'
'To-morrow,' repeated Marianna.
But she did not put it off till the next day; a conversation between her and Nezhdanov took place the same evening in one of the avenues of limes, not far from the terrace.
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