It seemed, however, that this teacher had spent some time the year before in exile, as a suspected person, in a village somewhere on the river Yemtsa. ‘The government allowed her thirteen roubles a month, and a grant for extra winter clothes, but she didn’t buy any.’ ‘She’s dowdy,’ said Ben. ‘You only get eight roubles as an exile if you’re of peasant origin,’ Dolly went on. ‘But then, of course, you can earn money working in the potato fields.’
