“He said something else about me, didn’t he?”
“He told me not to visit you.”
“And yet he gave you my address.”
“He wanted to make sure I didn’t go looking for you… there.” A piece of paper appeared in her hand. “I went to the House of Government, I talked to the neighbors. Everyone says they remembered Olya Voznesenskaya as a very cheerful person. Whenever Petrova bought her something for school, Olya was thrilled. She studied at the foreign languages Institute. She gave up her studies when she fell in love with Vladislav R-ov. She planned to marry another man, but killed herself.”
She didn’t pause to wait for a thank-you or any questions, just went on: “I went to the Institute and persuaded the administration to show me Voznesenskaya’s case for a minute. This is everything I wrote dow
