When she reached the street where her sister Pasha lived, there were no lights in the houses any more, all the people were sleeping after a long day at work. In the dark, Baba Dunya knocked on the gate for a long time, woke up all the dogs in the neighbourhood but her sister was sleeping soundly by that time. After knocking at the gate, Baba Dunya, managed, despite her age, to climb over the fence and for ages pounded on the door with her fists, kicked, walked around the house and knocked on all the windows. Finally, although desperate to wake her sister up and very exhausted, she sat down on the porch steps, the door suddenly creaked open, Pasha appeared in the doorway with a lantern in her hands and shone it right in her face: