Even a poor young man can get his wife into his wife if he is persistent and if his luck smiles. Of course, he is not wealthy and his wife would hardly have been taken to Moscow, and he can not surround with luxury ... Well, what now! Poverty is not a vice!

But Mitya possesses considerable advantages: her mother helps, strives for teaching, she has a delicate and romantic soul, she is recognized only in poetry, even in love. And most importantly, the beloved responds to him in return, and she herself begs the father with her mother, so that they do not force her, they give her for the beloved, they do not impose an unwelcome rich man. Well, her father will break it, break it, and agree. He himself admits that the dignity of man is not in that, he is poor or rich, but in spiritual qualities.