Pietro Petrovitch, Donia, and Rodya

Pietro Petrovitch is just setting off for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of business. Donia and I have agreed that from this very day, you could definitely enter upon your career. We have even ventured already to drop a few words on the subject to Pietro Petovitch. He was cautious in his answer, and said that it would be better to be paying a salary to a relation than to a stranger. But then he expressed doubts whether your studies at the university would leave you time for work at his office. The matter dropped for the time, but Donia is thinking of nothing else now.