“Yesterday I experienced a very strange experience. I've been unwell for a week now. It’s not that a serious illness has begun, but rather, I feel somehow uneasy: either a headache, or a cough, insomnia at night, some kind of incomprehensible weakness during the day. Yesterday I decided to invite the doctor, whom I often see at Marya Petrovna’s. The doctor did everything that doctors do in such cases. He examined and listened to me up and down, determined my body temperature, tapped my chest with some sticks, inquired about my tongue and pulse, found that everything was in order, and sat down in thought at the desk...”