What is to be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky

But we have had only one-half of this scene.

For about a moment -- no, rather less -- Marya Alekséyevna, who had suspected nothing of the kind, stood thunderstruck, endeavoring to understand, and absolutely failing to understand, what her daughter had said, what it meant, and how it came about; but it was only for a moment, or even less. She came to herself with a start. She uttered some objurgation or other; but her daughter was already far down the Nevsky. Marya Alekséyevna dashed several steps in her direction. "Must take an izvoshchik. " She turned to the sidewalk.