The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Enrico Riposati”
And this is where the dam broke completely, and women came onto the stage from all sides. On stools with gilded legs sat a whole row of ladies, energetically stomping their newly shod feet into the carpet. The cat, exhausted under the piles of handbags and shoes, dragged himself from the display case to the stools and back again.