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It was barely a quarter of an hour after her husband's departure before Olga heard his blundering footsteps in the corridor and his knuckles upon the door. She threw it open immediately and stood there to greet him, a radiant figure. She drew him into the room, closed and locked the door behind him.
"Let me carry the case," she begged, taking it from his hand. "Why, how light it is, Nicolas, and yet it looks as though it were made of metal."