human
Doctor, I expect you don't recognise me?
gpt
Yes, Princess, I recognised you,
human
Oh, thank you; I was afraid that you, too, had forgotten your princess. People only remember their enemies, but they forget their friends. Have you, too, come to pray?
gpt
I am the doctor here, and I have to spend the night at the monastery every Saturday.
human
Well, how are you? said the princess, sighing.
gpt
I hear that you have lost your wife. What a calamity!
human
Yes, Princess, for me it is a great calamity.
gpt
There's nothing for it! We must bear our troubles with resignation. Not one hair of a man's head is lost without the Divine Will.
human
Yes, Princess.
gpt
Yes, Princess.
human
What else can I say to him?
gpt
How long it is since we met! she said.
human
Five years! How much water has flowed under the bridge, how many changes in that time; it quite frightens one to think of it! You know, I am married. . . . I am not a countess now, but a princess. And by now I am separated from my husband too.
gpt
Yes, I heard so.
human
God has sent me many trials. No doubt you have heard, too, that I am almost ruined. My Dubovki, Sofyino, and Kiryakovo have all been sold for my unhappy husband's debts. And I have only Baranovo and Mihaltsevo left. It's terrible to look back: how many changes and misfortunes of all kinds, how many mistakes!
gpt
Yes, Princess, many mistakes.