Donia's Marriage to a Woman of Good Reputation Is a Good Idea

Donia is ready to put up with a great deal if only their future relationship can be an honorable and straightforward one. He struck me, for instance, at first, as rather abrupt, but that may well come from his being an outspoken man. Donia did not sleep all night before she made up her mind,. She got out of bed and was walking up and down the room all night. At last, she knelt down before the icon and prayed long and fervently. In the morning she told me that she had decided.