Stepping back from the telephone, Persikov wiped his forehead and took off the receiver.
Then trumpets began blaring and the shrieks of the Valkyrie rang in the apartment upstairs.
The cloth mill director's radio had tuned in to the Wagner concert at the Bolshoi.
To the accompaniment of howls and rumbles descending from the ceiling, Persikov declared to Maria Stepanovna that he would take the director to court, smash his radio to bits, and get the blazes out of Moscow, because somebody was clearly trying to drive him out.
He broke his magnifying glass, spent the night on the divan in the study and was lulled to sleep by the sweet trills of a famous pianist wafted from the Bolshoi Theatre.
The following day was also full of surprises.
After taking the tram to the Institute, Persikov found a stranger in a fashionable green bowler hat standing on the porch.
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