“Come, my dear, my precious one, be sensible! You have mermaid blood in your veins – well, then, be a mermaid! Let yourself go for once in your life: Fall head over ears in love with some water goblin, plunge headlong into the whirlpool with him, and leave the Herr Professor and all of us gasping with surprise.”

“Come, my dear, my precious one, be sensible! You have mermaid blood in your veins – well, then, be a mermaid! Let yourself go for once in your life: Fall head over ears in love with some water goblin, plunge headlong into the whirlpool with him, and leave the Herr Professor and all of us gasping with surprise.”

— Anton Chekhov