“Any post office, especially a small office located in the neighborhood, in which so many of our daily affairs are decided, where we constantly go with our needs, obligations, worries and troubles, joys and sorrows, where our patience is tested, where our hopes are justified or dashed, always, it seems to me, accumulates so many trifles from London life and has so much to tell from the endless history of the huge city that, even after staying in it for a very short time, it seems as if one were standing in a draft, under the strongest wind of human comedy "... Henry James

The story was included in the collection “The Turn of the Screw”, published in the series “ABC Classics (pocket-book).”

Translator: A. Shadrin