" "Seryozha!" said the tutor, stopping in the doorway leading to the inner rooms.

" Take it off yourself.

" But Seryozha, though he heard his tutor's feeble voice, did not pay attention to it.

He stood keeping hold of the hall porter's belt, and gazing into his face.

"Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him?" The hall porter nodded his head affirmatively.