...With a woman's instinct I understood that this was the love that they had been waiting for all their lives - take it, rejoice, but for some reason there was no joy. She was so accustomed to non-binding relationships, to meaningless words, that she was not at all ready to accept a strong, serious feeling. Lida didn’t really believe that it was possible to fall in love at first sight. She felt sorry for him, and she had no other feeling now. Oddly enough, she was grateful to him for that first evening in the light of the silver moon; he no longer caused indignation, but, on the contrary, affirmed in her for herself: she was a woman, and a man, proud and proud, wanted her...< /p>