I hear the Marshal had the nurse's cottage re-roofed. A roof that leaked for two years without a single person ever looking up at it.

• Marshal Arkady VolkovI didn't know looking after an old woman required permission.
  YekaterinaIt doesn't. Though the Marshal has walked past that house every day for two years.
• OsipI've had a man posted at that door for six days now.
  YekaterinaDon't leave him standing outside, bring him in. A mouth left out in the cold freezes shut, and a mouth that thaws comes loose.