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Love for a woman is always fruitful to the man, be the love
whatever it may; even though it were to cause but sufferings
there is always much that is rich in it. Working as a powerful
poison on those whose souls are afflicted, it is for the healthy
man as fire for iron, which is to be transformed into steel.
Foma's passion for the thirty-year-old woman, who lamented in his
embraces her dead youth, did not tear him away from his affairs;
he was never lost in the caresses, or in his affairs, bringing
into both his whole self. The woman, like good wine, provoked in
him alike a thirst for labour and for love, and she, too, became
younger from the kisses of the youth.
In Perm, Foma found a letter waiting for him. It was from his
godfather, who notified him that Ignat, out of anxiety for his
son, had begun to drink heavily, and that it was harmful to drink
thus, for a man of his age. The letter concluded with advice to
hurry up matters in order to return home the sooner. Foma felt
alarmed over this advice, and it clouded the clear holiday of his
heart.


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