“Yes, I have,” said Rogojin.

“Come along, then. I don’t wish to meet my new year without you⁠—my new life, I should say, for a new life is beginning for me. Did you know, Parfen, that a new life had begun for me?”

“I see for myself that it is so⁠—and I shall tell her . But you are not quite yourself, Lef Nicolaievitch.”