Book 1, The Short Works : Chapter 4, A Faint Heart Another Man's Wife or the Husband Under the Bed Summary

There are two men; they are housemates and work colleagues in military service. One is Arkady Ivanovitch Nefedevitch, and the other is Vasya Shumkov. These two are very loving friends. One of them is engaged; they begin discussing marriage. Arkady admits to Vasya, that now that he knows that Vasya is getting married he has been thinking about this to. Vasya describes a bit how he fell in love - he describes it as having despite himself, but not against his will. There was fear and hesitation surrounding telling the girl's mother about this, but the young men let it fall from his lips to the prospective new mother-in-law. The tender...