Well, there are such different charges. In view of your hesitation, which I fail to understand, I am constrained to fix the sum myself. I am really ashamed. Rather than take two roubles I will come for nothing . . . . But by law you have not the right to refuse.
All work ought to receive remuneration.
In that case I regret that I have troubled you for nothing. . . . I will come for three roubles if that will satisfy you. The astonished and disconcerted midwife fastens the door after him and goes back into her bedroom. Extraordinary the way things are mismanaged. Neither the chemist , nor the police, nor the house-porters can give me the address of a midwife, and so I am under the necessity of assenting to your terms.