Have kept silent. Bulls has thought that with such chief to it to serve still, perhaps, it was not necessary.
- And how your affairs? - Has unexpectedly asked Dauge.
- What affairs? - With your Ashkhabad teacher.
Bulls at once has frowned and has become gloomy.
- So-so, - he has sadly told. - we Meet...
- Ah, here that! Meet. Well, and?.
- Anything.
- The offer did? - Did.
- Has refused? - Is not present. Has told that will think.
- How for a long time it was? - Half a year back.
- And? - That - "and"? Anything else was not.
- That is you the positive fool, Alexey, excuse, for God's sake.
Bulls has sighed. Dauge looked at it with a frank sneer.
- Amazingly! - he has told. - to the person thirty with superfluous years. Loves the beautiful woman and there are it here seven
years...
- Well, let there will be five. For the fifth year has a talk it.
Notice, she patiently waited five years, this unfortunate woman...
- It is not necessary, Grigory, - screwing up the face, has told Bulls.
- Minute! After when she from modesty or from small revenge has told that will think...
- There is enough! Dauge has sighed and has made a helpless gesture.
- You are guilty, Alexey! Your courting is similar to mockery. What will she think of you? A mattress! Bulls sadly was silent. Has
then told with nadezhdoj: - When we will return...
Dauge hihiknul: - Eh you, the subjugator... It is guilty, the expert in deserts! "When we will return"!. Go sleep, see you I can
not! Bulls has risen and took from a little table the book. "La description planetographique du Phobos" Paul Dangee, - he
has read.
["The Planetografichesky description of a Fobos". Pol Danzhe.] On the title page there was fat, a red pencil an inscription in
Russian: "to Dear Dauge from true and grateful Polja Danzhe".
At a dawn of Bulls has woken up. The door in a bedroom has been half-opened. Dauge in one cowards, black and tousled,
stood at a desk and looked at a portrait of the young sad woman - Mashas Jurkovskoj. Then it has removed a portrait from a
wall and has put it in a backpack.