You knew him before ?" "Yes.

I've known him slightly for some years." "What has he come for?
He's frightened out of his life." "Frightened ?" "Yes, he himself told me.

He says that he's very nervous but that he must do everything that every one else does--for a certain reason.

He got very excited when he talked to me and asked me whether I thought it would all be very terrible." "He is a nervous fussy little man.

Russians are not cowards, but Andrey Vassilievitch lost his wife last year.