"In the meantime the Zhivagos were tried to the limits of endurance. They had nothing and they were starving. The doctor went to see the Party member he had once saved, the one who had been the victim of a robbery. This man did everything he could for the doctor, but the civil war was just beginning and he was hardly ever in Moscow; moreoever, he regarded the privations people had to suffer in those days as only natural, and he himself went hungry, though he concealed it.
     Yurii Andreivich tried to get in touch with the supplier in Brest Street. But in the intervening months the young man had disappeared and nothing was known about his wife, who had recovered. galiulina was out when Yurii Andreivich called, most of the tenents were new, and Demina was at the front.
     One day he received an allocation of wood at he official price. He had to bring it from the Vindava Station. Walking home along the endless stretches of Meshchanskaia Street-keeping an eye on the cart loaded with his unexpected treasure- he noticed that the street looked quite different; he found that he was swaying from side to side, his legs refusing to carry him. He realized that he was in for a bad time, that he had typhus. The driver picked him up when he fell down and slung him on top of the wood. The doctor never knew how he got home."