Veronica just sat and clapped her eyes. Well, yes, if you got to know her mother, she would behave like Nina Fedorovna, and even speak the same words. It's very familiar - they didn't earn a penny and they don't help. But how easily all these people look at such things! With laughter and jokes.

There were enough jokes. Mike remembered how his father punished him and Vik for leaving Listvyanka for the whole day in the forest and not telling anyone. And they were seven and eight years old respectively. Lina recalled how she got it when she fought with the boys at school. And then even when she...