: A woman leaves her husband with her lover. Not finding her in any resort, her husband commits suicide.

To meet her, he came to Moscow and stopped "in inconspicuous rooms on the Arbat." She resorted to him secretly, was beautiful, pale and suffered very much: her husband suspected something, watched her every step, and insisted that he would be able to defend “his honor as husband and officer”.

They had a daring plan: "to leave on the same train to the Caucasian coast and live there in some very wild place for three to four weeks." He hardly believed in the implementation of this plan, but she told her husband that she would die if she did not see the sea, and she was released.

He arrived at the station earlier, and saw her husband accompanying her. She sent her husband a postcard from Gelendzhik and Gagra, and then they went down along the coast to the south and found "a primeval place overgrown with plane forests." She looked at the sea, sunset clouds and cried at the thought that she would have to return to Moscow.

Her husband was looking for her in Gagra and in Gelendzhik. Arriving in Sochi, he bathed, shaved and put on clean underwear. Then he had breakfast, drank a bottle of champagne, coffee with chartreuse, smoked a cigar. Returning to the room, the husband "lay down on the sofa and shot himself in the whiskey with two revolvers."