A book about Water Street, where the author spent their childhood.
- Why did they bring that dark strange woman here? We've got no place here, and she's sprawled out in the middle like a queen, her face swollen and dark, her kerchief up to her eyes, and they've put a piece of paper on her forehead so that no one would recognize her. I told you, we shouldn't have opened the door when they brought her in at night, but grandma if she got something in her head, she is so stubborn and she's always looking for troubles on her ass, and now we'll have to take care of funerals. When mom comes, Andrei will tell her what happened here. "She's just got old and acting crazy," she'll laugh at grandma, and then she'll just give up on it.