"How`s it you`re not drunk today?" said Nesvitski when the other had ridden up to him.

"But if he is dishonorable?"

First the man in the tight trousers sang alone, then she sang, then they both paused while the orchestra played and the man fingered the hand of the girl in white, obviously awaiting the beat to start singing with her. They sang together and everyone in the theater began clapping and shouting, while the man and woman on the stagewho represented loversbegan smiling, spreading out their arms, and bowing.