Caprice by Alexander Kuprin

KUPRIN began his literary career as a member of the
Gorky (Knowledge) school, but he soon became
sufficiently significant to assume individual importance.
His early training was for the army, and, consequently,
his earlier stories treat of military life. He achieved
literary prominence with The Duel, a novel that
appeared immediately after the Russo-Japanese war and
was acclaimed by all anti-militarists.
Caprice is one of Kuprin's later stories. The present
version, anonymously translated, is reprinted from The
Pagan Magazine,