She extended her palm to him. Leonid took it somehow strangely, with both hands, and shook it lightly, then kissed it. They looked into each other's eyes. It suddenly became clear to both that everything was not so simple: it was not in vain that they were talking, it was not in vain that they were embarrassed. Lenya and Lelya... The soft, affectionate “l”, obsessively repeated in the names, weaving them together into an intricate pattern, seemed to Lelya a sign of fate... The collection of Evgenia Perova included seven short stories, in which, as in the short story “Tsar Leonidas”, the heroes trying to find a formula for love.