Simply

“Click for me a cabman, please,” a young man politely said, just then having arrived—“the arrived doctor”—in the remote provincial town of Propadinsk.

“A cabman?” the old cook who was in charge of the maidservants was surprised. “Isn’t it that Fomka runs to the church—he’s standing by the cathedral, and there’s no one else.”

“Anyway—Fomka or whoever. I’m in a hurry; I need to make visits…””