The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Gennady Kalinovskiy”
Annushka hid the find in her bosom, grabbed the can, and was about to slip back into the apartment, postponing her trip into the city, when the very same man with the white chest, without a jacket, grew before her, the devil knows from where, and whispered quietly: “Give me the horseshoe and the little napkin.” “What little napkin-horseshoe?” asked Annushka, pretending very skillfully. “I don't know any little napkin. What's wrong, citizen, are you drunk or something?” With fingers as hard as bus handrails and just as cold, the white-chested man, without saying another word, squeezed Annushka's throat so that all access of air to her chest was completely cut off. The can fell from Annushka's hands to the floor.