14/33 This is your room, next to mine. I managed, after all, to get it changed." "That is very good of you, doctor, but it really would not have mattered a bit for one night. It does look snug and warm, with that great fire." "Yes, the stoves are the one thing I don't like in Russia. I like to see a blazing fire, and the first thing I do, when I get into fresh quarters, is to have the stove opened so that I can see one. There were three together, you see, and as my rank is that of a colonel, I was able to get them, and it is handy, if a friend comes to see me, to have a room for him." An hour later, just as Charlie was dozing off to sleep, the doctor put his head in to the door. |