The Gambler Chapter 7

In which the narrator, caught between pride and circumstance, receives an unexpected visit from the inscrutable Frenchman De Griers, who urges him to abandon a troubling course of action, revealing simmering tensions among those in the General’s household. A letter from Polina stirs his thoughts into uneasy contemplation, and he perceives an intricate web of influence and restraint that underlies their tangled relations.