Tuganyev's First Love

The story is about the marriage of a farm girl called Mary Louise Dalen to a middle-aged drape named Elmer Quarry. The secret and fragile love that they have is colored by his devotion to the novels and stories of Tuganyev, which run through the novella like music. And this is him reading to her from first love. I dreamed I was sad and sometimes cried, but through the tears and the melancholy, inspired by the music of the verse or the beauty of the evening, there always rose upwards like the grasses of early spring, shoots of happy feeling. But that's not the bit that I'm going to read to you. The main bit