– Well-well, we will look what will be made by you yours «the improving women’s influence» – the offended Pierre said with irony.
However he had to admit soon that Adam considerably changed for the better.
Clothilda often walked with Adam on foot, and business did without any adventures. Adam behaved well.
What sometimes confused Clothilda, so it is Adam’s questions, absolutely simple, but which, however, she was difficult to answer.
That he asked whether to consider «neighbor» of a bear and whether it is necessary to substitute it if strikes, «other cheek». That, having seen on the street of the hungry beggar near the delivery boy of pies, Adam samochinno fed the beggar and started disputes about «others» and «own», obviously without perceiving «bases of the economy» and insisting that hungry it is more, than police officers.
Such talk awoke in Clothilda some disturbing feeling. And once, seeing that Adam goes, having bent the head, obviously reflecting over some new question, Clothilda solved: he should be entertained. With it it is already possible to go to theater fearlessly. It will be necessary to show it some good classical play.
Adam sat with Clotilda de Troyes in a bed of the first tier, near a scene.
When the curtain rose, Adam quietly screamed from surprise:
– The wall left…
– You sit quietly – Clothilda tutorially told – you do not rustle.
– I will be – as usual, Adam answered. There was Shakespeare’s tragedy «Othello».
Adam looked at the auditorium shipped in a gloom on bright festoon lightings, on the top boxes.
– You look there – Clothilda by a fan pointed to the stage.
Adam looked and «there», but it was visible that the theatrical performance does not take its attention. Clothilda overestimated Adam’s development. The poetic speech of the tragedy, with conditional arrangement of words, melodious diction of the French drama school complicated understanding. Adam perceived only outer side of a performance: paints and gestures…
Recovered only its collision of groups of Brabantio and Othello in the second stage a little. And in the third scene of the first act he already impatiently pottered on the place and sighed: to it bothered to sit in theater.
But there was Desdemona whose role was played by the actress with a world name. Her charming appearance, her suit and, the main thing, its concerning voice made a miracle: Adam suddenly addressed all in sight and hearing. He and stared hard at the stage, without taking eyes with Desdemona. When it left, Adam sighed and with alarm asked Clothilda:
– Where it left? It still will come?
Clothilda smiled:
– Will come. Only you sit quietly.
– What is her name?
– Desdemona.
And Adam began to repeat quietly:
– Dezhdemon… Dezhdemon… Dezhdemon…
The performance suddenly gained extraordinary interest. Adam lived Desdemona’s appearance, suffered from impatience when she left a scene. He still understood hardly more than one tenth of what was told on the stage, but some intuition, new to it, he quite truly estimated people depending on their attitude towards Desdemona. Othello, up to awakening in it of jealousy, excited Adam’s sympathies as well as Cassio. Rodrigo was not pleasant, he began to hate Iago.
When Othello for the first time roughly shouted on Desdemona: «Away from my eyes!» – Adam deafly grumbled. From this point he hated already and Othello.
