Pjorda Ivanovich's Grief Prevents My Attending to Practical Affairs

Preskovia Fjorda Ivanovich was discussing the price of a plot for her husband's grave. She stopped weeping and remarked in French that it was very hard for her. The thought of the suffering of this man he had known so intimately struck him with horror. Is it possible that he was conscious all that time? asked Pjorda  Ivanovich. He screamed unceasingly, not for minutes but for hours. For the last three days he screamed incessantly. It was unindurable. I cannot understand how I bore it. You could hear him three rooms off. Oh, what I have suffered.