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Yes ! The Germans ! '' Next day , Thursday , Marya Konstantinovna was celebrating the birthday of her Kostya . All were invited to come at midday and eat pies , and in the evening to drink chocolate . When Laevsky and Nadyezhda Fyodorovna arrived in the evening , the zoologist , who was already sitting in the drawing-room , drinking chocolate , asked Samoylenko : `` Have you talked to him ? '' `` Not yet . '' `` Mind now , do n't stand on ceremony .