Another Man's Wife and the Husband Under the Bed

“Please, sir, allow me to ask you a question…”
The passerby flinched and looked at the gentleman in a fur coat with some fear—this man had spoken so directly to him on the street at eight o’clock in the evening.
After all, as everyone knows, if in Petersburg one gentleman suddenly begins talking on the street with another gentleman he doesn’t know, then the other gentleman is inevitably going to get scared…