The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta and so was fairly at home there had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion he saw walking on the sea-front a fair-haired young lady of medium height wearing a beret; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her. And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square several times a day. She was walking alone always wearing the same beret and always with the same white dog; no one knew who she was and every one called her simply the lady with the dog.