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Nadya
also: Надежда Петровна, Nadezhda Petrovna, Nadine
The story's protagonist, who in one evening accepts a merchant's son, begs her secret lover the baron to marry her, and renounces a third suitor -- revealing herself as calculating beneath a sentimental surface.
Reading notes
- Which of the Three? §2 Nadya
The story's protagonist, who accepts three separate suitors in the course of a single evening; her surname's German sound supplies the closing joke.