The Moscow platform behind the windows smoothly started and our Sapsan rushed to the glorious city of Peter. “Feeling like an airplane. It’s like we’re about to take off, ”I told my fellow traveler. For some reason I wanted to chat with her and not just out of courtesy to pass the time on the road. She interested me at first sight. It seemed as if a fascinating sense of style came from her, at the same time cozy and far from glossy designs. When landing, I let her go to the next chair by the window, I even remembered the Blok lines: "Breathing perfumes and mists, she sat by the window." She was clearly over thirty. Maybe even closer to forty. In general, I was sitting next to not just the social lady, but a mystery. And I could not wait to learn more about it.

- The soul lives in flight. Judging by your shining eyes, you are going to Sapsan for the first time. My name is Alyona, - she smiled and supported the conversation.

- That's a coincidence. I am also Alain. So I decided to give up on studying with my hand and arrange a feast of the soul and name for my heart in the middle of the semester. I want to walk for four days in autumn Petersburg, Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Pavlovsk, Oranienbaum.

- Well, for such an extensive program (unless it is not a gallop around Europe), four days are definitely not enough.

- I understand it. And therefore, nothing more than a day ahead is going to plan. I will begin tomorrow with Nevsky Prospect and the Hermitage, and then - as they say, “how the tail will fall”.

- Yes, you're just the embodiment of female wisdom. Who do you study, what course? She asked me.

- Zhurfak. Second course.

- And I was first thinking about VGIK. With a look like yours ...

- Thanks for the cute compliment. I can not tell you that you just look amazing.

She smiled at me: "Ah, we are both good and beloved." And she translated the conversation: “And what are you going alone? A crowd of young people, numb with delight in front of you, must accompany such spectacular girls to St. Petersburg ... ”

- Why do I need a crowd? One prince on a white horse would be enough for me. Why, somehow it is not visible on the horizon. Probably, they all remained in the Middle Ages.

- Well, why is it all. For example, I have been with this, one might say, a prince together for 19 years and we still have not bored each other. Moreover, he sometimes has such creative cockroaches in his head, that you will definitely not get bored with him.

At that moment, her smartphone rang. "Hi, baby," I miss. I will wait for you on the platform, ”I heard with a fringe of my ear a velvety male voice. “Well Denis, you are surely easy to trace. We just talked to you about your neighbor. Very nice girl and my namesake. Sophomore and future journalist. Goes to St. Petersburg for 4 days. If she allows, I’ll take a selfie with her and send you a letter so that you will miss even more. ”

She talked a little more with her husband and asked me: “Well, what will we do together selfie for the memory of the trip?” I agreed with pleasure. Soon he called again. At this time, Alain slowed down the sound and I almost did not understand anything from what he said. “Well, let's try,” she concluded the conversation with him and turned to me: “I am passing word by word. The husband said that he was simply stunned by your beauty. And he said that since we are both Alena, today he wants to make a wish, sitting between us in a cozy restaurant on Nevsky. ”

- What is your gallant. I really do not know what to say now.

- And you do not say anything.You will see it on the platform and decide for yourself where and how your tail will fall. Problems need to be addressed as they arrive. Where are you planning to stay in St. Petersburg?

- Booked a place in a student hostel on Zhdanovskaya Embankment.

- Clear. Budget option: bunk beds in a small room ...

- Yes exactly.

- And from our window the view of St. Isaac's Cathedral opens. We live among the greatness of the history of the city.

- And who is your husband by profession?

- He has an IT business and is quite successful. And I have a Romance-Germanic philology. I teach half-time at university. Half a bet, because Denis wanted me to have a lot of free time. But not too much so that I, as he puts it, did not suffer from foolishness, as is usually the case with professional businesswomen’s wives ...

- It seems that you have a really wonderful family. How did you meet him?

- At a student party. You can say, fell in love with him at first sight.

- Such handsome?

- Well, not to say that the model looks, but when he wants, it becomes just a chasm enveloping you all the charm. Here I am in this abyss and dived. Although my friends warned me in advance that he was a notebook womanizer and had slept with almost all pretty girls in the dorm.

- Yeah. Good advice is usually given to those who can not use them. But it seems that in your case everything turned out well.

- Not immediately. He accompanied me that evening, immediately told me that he was a womanizer, and therefore he offered me friendship. Platonic friendship. In such a serious tone said. I was already taken aback by such a statement and asked why it was for him. He replied that he liked me very much and liked me somehow unusually. What's wrong with me is not like with other girls. But he is not ready now to remain faithful to me and therefore asks for my permission for platonic friendship. We really at a party with him only talked and in a slow dance with me he behaved more than correctly.

- Wow. Indeed, it is very unlike ordinary guys.

- He said that he is a man of his word and for him to change his word is the same as betraying himself. That's why he asks me for permission to have a platonic friendship with me. Platonic friendship for half a year.

- amazing. And he kept his word?

- He always keeps his word. And indicates the period during which he will keep his word. Here he has a simple point in terms of accuracy and commitment. For six months we had a platonic friendship. At the same time, he always told me at our meetings who of the girls he slept with until we saw each other. He told in all the piquant details about bed. Despite the fact that I saw how insanely jealous of him. By the way, he announced to all these his girls that he was with me, apparently, seriously. And he asked each permission in advance to tell me what was and how was in bed with them, while Denis and I did not see each other. These girls almost all approached me and told about it. Sometimes twisting a finger at his temple - they say that something, he, as he met me, was quite a bit shizanulsya.

- amazing. Never would such a behavior a guy could imagine.

- And after six months, he made me an offer and I agreed. We signed.

“And he didn't cheat you again?”

“Denis is a man of his word,” she said with a little evasive intonation. Further inquiries in this direction, I found tactless and translated the topic.

For a sweet, unhurried conversation, four hours of travel flew like a flash. Outside the window, the platform of the Moscow railway station began to slowly slow down. Denis really turned out to be a very impressive man. He handed us a stunningly chic rose: I am snow white, and Alena is scarlet. Alyona smiled and told me as if with a meaning: “On the etiquette of flowers, white roses mean admiration. A combination of white and red roses means unity. Well, where does our tail go? Go to a restaurant? ”It was all so cute that, embarrassed, I could only nod at them.

In general, I could not get rid of the vague feeling that Denis, with all his courtesy, excitedly laid eyes on me like a man. But Alyona, having noticed this for certain, remained absolutely calm as an observer of her husband’s ardor in my direction. Denis gallantly announced to us: “Since you are both Alena, in order not to confuse both of you, I’ll turn to our Moscow guest with her permission:“ Dear young lady ”. I, of course, agreed.