How I spent the last two days I don’t remember. I ate, slept, swam. And slept. I practically didn’t speak to Kornei. It wasn’t that he hadn’t forgiven me for that incident, or for other reasons – no. He was just up to his ears in work again. And this time to the maximum. His face looked pinched. People once again kept dropping in; we were overrun. Believe it or not, a dirigible flew in, hanging for days on end over the garden. The amazing thing is that during the whole time not one Phantom showed up. I had noticed that Phantoms arrived either late evening or early morning. I don’t know why. So all day long I was in a fog, didn’t pay attention to anything, but as soon as the sun set and the stars came out, there I’d be at my window with my weapon on my knees. But no Phantoms, as if to spite
