"Милый мой Родя, - писала мать, - вот уже два месяца с лишком как я не беседовала с тобой письменно, от чего сама страдала и даже иную ночь не спала, думая.
"My dear Rodya," wrote his mother - "it's two months since I last had a talk with you by letter which has distressed me and even kept me awake at night, thinking.