Oprindelig tekst - Engelsk - Tatiana's Table

Many years have passed since that time Tatiana made lazy cabbage for Alexander.

Yet it was still vivid in her mind: her grandmother's slightly hoarse quiet voice, the taking of the tram across the river, the waning afternoon, the ache in her limping, broken leg: but above all, the desire to make something for someone, for no other reason than to please him.