Inkanyezi "I-Univer" kunye namaqabane akhe amathathu ayesele kufika emva kololiwe, kwafuneka athenge amatikiti kwenye ngokungxamisekileyo. Kwenzeka ukuba amaRhata aneendawo ezi-4 kwiSt., Kozkikov bacela abakhweli (abathathu kubo babeyindoda) ukutshintsha iindawo namantombazana. Kwaye ixesha kwindlela eya kwindawo oya kuyo yayiziiyure ezi-2 kuphela kunye nemizuzu eli-10. Nangona kunjalo, akukho mntu uwuthandayo ukuba kufanelekile ukwanelisa isicelo. "Umntu othile uyivila yezandla ukuze atshintshe, umntu yile ndawo ixabisekileyo entliziyweni," i-Kozvikova ikhalaza.
I-Manemen ayizanga kuloliwe, kodwa umfazi weza kwiNgeniso, ongekazicel 'uncedo, nabaqhubi bezikhundla. Ngenxa yoko, uluhlu lwe-erius Prookhorova luye lwakwazi ukulungiselela i-KozHevnikov ukuba idubula, i-albeit phantsi kweevili. Ngaphandle kwento yokuba ibali liphelile, i-ortiress isaphukile ngamadoda. Akadinwa kukubulela uThixo ukuba unelungelo lomntu ofanelekileyo kwindoda yakhe. I-Kozhevnikova, ngubani ophakamisa oonyana abathathu, wathembisa ukuba iya kukhula amadoda anencwadi enkulu.
Ababhalisileyo bakaMaria babelane ngamagqabantshintshi kunye namatyala abo alusizi kubomi xa umgangatho owomileyo uziphathe kakuhle naphantsi. I-ortiver ihlazile abafazi abathi bangqubana nobukrakra kunye nokungakhathali, kwaye baphawula ukuba "ukungasineki nje ukuba" ukungabonisi nje ngezahluko zesini kunye neminye imixholo ... Kodwa akukho thuba elinye. "