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The city philistine Domna Platonovnaa merchant of lace and sometimes and live goods is engaged in pimping Fate confronts her with a young intelligent womana noblewoman a colonel Lekanida Petrovna whose difficult life trials led to a moral decline Domna Platonovna tells her tragic story with imperturbable calmness presenting her own unseemly actions that push the unfortunate woman as the greatest benefits rendered to her