Chapter 78: A Tripping Tongue

A Tripping Tongue Natalya Mihalovna, a young married lady who had arrived in the morning from Yalta, was having her dinner, and in a never-ceasing flow of babble was telling her husband of all the charms of the Crimea. Her husband, delighted, gazed tenderly at her enthusiastic face, listened, and from time to time put in a question. “But they say living is dreadfully expensive there?” he asked, among other things. “Well, what shall I say? To my thinking this talk of its being so expensi…