Others, who understood him better, counted it to him for righteousness, and even Dumnoff, the rough peasant, showed at times a friendly interest in him, which is not usually felt by the unpunctual borrower towards the uncomplaining lender.
But Akulina could understand none of these things.

She belongs by nature to the class of people whose first impulse on all occasions is to say: "Money is money." There can be no mutual attraction of intellectual sympathy between these, and those other persons who despise money in their hearts, and would rather not touch it with their hands.

It has been seen also that the events connected with the Gigerl's first appearance in the shop had been of a nature to irritate Akulina still more.

The dislike nourished in her stout bosom through long months and years now approached the completion of its development, and manifested itself as a form of active hatred.

Akulina was delighted to learn that there was a prospect of the Count's spending the night in the police-station and she determined that Johann Schmidt should not find her husband before the next day, and that when the partner of her bliss returned--presumably pacified by the soothing converse of his friend--she would not disturb his peace of mind by any reference to the Count's adventures.