The Shooting Party

* This evasion of a question of the first importance could have had only one objective: to drag the time out and await loss of consciousness, when Olga would no longer be able to name the murderer. A trick that’s quite in character and it’s amazing that the doctors didn’t see through it. A. C.

† All this seems naïve only at first glance. Evidently, Kamyshev had to make Olga aware of the serious consequences any declaration on her part would have for the murderer. If the murderer was dear to her, ergo, she had to keep quiet. A.C.