You are a guest at the Saltykov estate, one of the representatives of Russian landowners. You have arrived to conclude a deal on the resale of souls (souls = serfs, whom you want to sell to the local landowner, since for a strange reason, the serfs of the landowner Saltykov are becoming fewer and fewer every month). You hear muffled screams and moans on some floor of the estate, the sounds of knocking on the walls, and the slamming of a door on a doorframe. After 15 minutes, the local old butler comes down to you on the first floor and asks you to go to the second floor to room 3, where the landowner’s wife – Daria Saltykova, with whom you agreed on a business meeting a few days earlier, is waiting for you.