And she whispered hurriedly to him, looking nervously at the closed door for fear anyone should overhear⁠—that here in this village, it was dreadful. That though all the peasants were fishermen, they made their living chiefly by charging travellers every summer whatever they thought fit. The village was not on the high road but an out-of-the-way one, and people only called there because the steamers stopped there, and that when the steamer did not call⁠—and if the weather was in the least unfavourable, it would not⁠—then numbers of travellers would be waiting there for several days, and all the cottages in the village would be occupied, and that was just the villagers’ opportunity, for they charged three times its value for everything⁠—and their landlord here was proud and stuck up because he was, for these parts, very rich; he had a net which had cost a thousand roubles.