So had begun his long and terrible search for Anyusha Let me see the women who are still alive They were thin sticks of women, with an emptiness in their eyes.
It seemed cruel to question them. Don't you remember a child? A small girl? Fair hair, soft smooth hair blue eyes always laughing. You could not forget this child "I saw no child with her.' "I never knew she had a child. She used to weep. But then who did not?' He had searched for Anyusha for years. Until at last he had found a crazy girl. I arrived at the same time as her.