By now her cheeks had red in them, too, and suddenly she was laughing. Dora was astonished and mystified by the two sudden transformations that produced an angry Surmena and a Květa with a zest for life. Surmena answered Dora’s hesitant question thus: “She’s drunk enough Saint John’s wort. What the girl has to do now is learn how to live. And work will teach her that.”

