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At eleven o'clock at night an American acquaintance of Peter's appears and suggests taking us to pay a call on a man who writes books--a Russian. He has said that he will be at home between twelve and one.
He isn't, and we all settle down in his kitchen--situated on the staircase, and which he shares with five other families in the same building--and wait for his arrival.