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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: since he came back from the army; people said that he could write
letters very well if he were properly paid. Vasilisa talked to
the cook at the tavern, then to the mistress of the house, then
to Yegor himself. They agreed upon fifteen kopecks.
And now -- it happened on the second day of the holidays, in the
tavern kitchen -- Yegor was sitting at the table, holding the pen
in his hand. Vasilisa was standing before him, pondering with an
expression of anxiety and woe on her face. Pyotr, her husband, a
very thin old man with a brownish bald patch, had come with her;
he stood looking straight before him like a blind man. On the
stove a piece of pork was being braised in a saucepan; it was
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