Chapter 158: After the Theatre

After the Theatre Nadya Zelenin had just come back with her mamma from the theatre where she had seen a performance of Yevgeny Onyegin. As soon as she reached her own room she threw off her dress, let down her hair, and in her petticoat and white dressing-jacket hastily sat down to the table to write a letter like Tatyana’s. “I love you,” she wrote, “but you do not love me, do not love me!” She wrote it and laughed. She was only sixteen and did not yet love anyone. She knew that an o…