Family life does not always go smoothly and the girl, who fluttered like a moth before marriage, is forced to carry heavy suitcases behind her husband. She pays for all her mistakes. Their life is full of quarrels, petty exactions, ransoms and blackmail. Is it worth prolonging such a painful marriage?

Her eyes followed these two golden-yellow creatures, their wings beat ever slower... Suddenly her mouth twitched, her hand swayed like a pendulum, her fingers flew up and fell on the butterflies, squeezing them tighter and tighter... A scream burst from somewhere in her throat, but she managed to suppress it... The hand unclenched on its own, and two small lumps of bright powder fell onto the shiny tiles with which the yard was paved.