I think it's all nonsense.

Shatushka, what do you think?
If people can tell lies why shouldn't a card ?" She suddenly threw the cards together again.

"I said the same thing to Mother Praskovya, she's a very venerable woman, she used to run to my cell to tell her fortune on the cards, without letting the Mother Superior know.

Yes, and she wasn't the only one who came to me.

They sigh, and shake their heads at me, they talk it over while I laugh.