– So, the young enough man had a job, “long live that” … at the Municipal Council from Baia. He was the person that distributed the inhabitants in the new apartment houses. He was so nice and courted by women that we can say he could not bear with them and not few of them “slipped” in his arms. Maybe also his job could have facilitated this matter, but he was indeed a handsome man, communicative, very charming, how maybe any woman would wish her man to be and something that we cannot pass over, he had a very good financial situation. He had his own house, life, fortune, what else, he did not miss anything. He built this “little house” as a jewel “openly” how they say in here if the house is faced south, with a particular finish. I don’t have to remind you about the orchards and others.
Our Pavel, that was his name, I think he never tasted plum brandy or wine from other places than the ones that he made and he used to make it the way he liked it. There’s no use in telling more, he had everything and mostly everything a person could wish for … or a woman of those that “throws herself in his arms”. Not few were from those that may have seen Pavel’s fortune and maybe only after that they taped him, or they “got warm” after Pavel. He was close to 50 years old and Pavel lived all his life in pleasures and parties with women, each one of them different than the other. Maybe what surprised people from the village were Pavel’s “breaking up” of these women? Breakings up that were spent in silence, in such way that not even one neighbor heard any hard words, rude things or words that were calling out from Pavel’s place. With about two years earlier “he felt” for a very beautiful woman, a charming woman, that was behind any gossip that wasn’t admirable. She was about 35 years old. A pleasant woman that knew her value and importance in the society. She was the kind of woman to “be seen” anywhere. Suddenly for the first time in his life, Pavel felt in love with her. Thinking about how many women crossed his “doorstep”, have brightened his life and spent unforgettable hours together and each time he knew how to get away to come back to his bachelor’s, to don’t get married with any of them, now it seemed he became immune to these things. This late falling in love for this woman seemed absurd. Against all these Pavel was deeply in love, when he separated from her a state of mesmerizing used to get into him and a fact was sure: if she asked him to get married, Pavel wouldn’t think a minute about it.