Dick Dunkerman's Cat

A big black cat with emerald eyes finds shelter with different people: a priest, a playwright, and an artist. With his arrival, the lives of these people change—and most often for the better. They become famous and well-off… But at what cost do they get all of this?

Richard and I Dunkerman were classmates since our school days, but of course we were connected not only by that. In general, gentlemen for whom a top hat and gloves are indispensable details of everyday clothing, and a plaid Scottish cap is just as obligatory an attribute of unofficial meetings (when we wear that cap, in everyone’s opinion, it’s like a mask—and therefore we can’t compromise our class), in one way or another end up in the same caste, even if they didn’t study together…