"The way by Nikolsk is long, and it's expensive if you hire horses."
"You see, I'm against this expedition in general. It's already
begun to be unquiet there--some arrests have been made, a teacher
was taken. Rybin escaped, that's certain. But we must be more
careful. We ought to have waited a little while still."
"That can't be avoided," said Nilovna.
Sofya, tapping her fingers on the table, remarked:
"It's important for us to keep spreading literature all the time.
You're not afraid to go, are you, Nilovna?"
The mother felt offended. "When have I ever been afraid? I was
without fear even the first time. And now all of a sudden--" She
drooped her head. Each time she was asked whether she was afraid,
whether the thing was convenient for her, whether she could do this
or that--she detected an appeal to her which placed her apart from
the comrades, who seemed to behave differently toward her than
toward one another. Moreover, when fuller days came, although at
first disquieted by the commotion, by the rapidity of events, she
soon grew accustomed to the bustle and responded, as it were, to the
jolts she received from her impressions. She became filled with a
zealous greed for work.
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