…Even this morning I was the happiest person in the world, I was going to a sanatorium in a pine forest to spend a well-deserved vacation there. Only the navigator played a cruel joke with me and brought me straight into the clutches of a rabid beast ...But even the beast that tore the car to shreds did not frighten me like the person in whose house I took refuge ...… I lifted my eyes to his face with an effort, finding on myself a far from kind, studying look. I didn't have the strength to say anything. A dense fog thickened in my head, paralyzing, smearing it on the glass. And the man stepped through the curtain of drops and was almost close. I just threw back my head when he put a huge hand on my neck and pressed me against the wall with his hot body.-Look at me,- suddenly growled gutturally,-a witch...