It was a hot night and I could not sleep, I got up and looked
out of the window. The sky was beautiful, but my attention was soon drawn to a
moaning sound coming from the next flat. At first, I thought it was just snoring
or crying in a dream, but it soon became clear that people were talking loudly
and quarreling.
I could hear a voice begging and the sound of blows, followed by a woman's
shrill cry. I hesitated to interfere, but then I heard a crash and a terrible
shriek. Fearful that something had happened, I knocked on my neighbor's door to
ask if everything was alright.
My neighbor appeared bewildered, and he showed me the chaos in his apartment.
His wife, a hysterical patient, had created the disturbance, and he had been
trying to calm her down. The chairs had been overturned in the process, and his
wife had fallen into a swoon.
He apologized for disturbing my peace, and I bid him goodnight before returning
to my own room. The incident left me shaken, and I found it hard to fall back
asleep. The thought of my neighbor's troubled life continued to weigh on my mind
for the rest of the night. |