Pavel tells Katya about her parents' arrest and persuades her to leave the city with little Alyosha. In the morning, Maria Alekseyevna sees Pavel through the window, leaving Katya's. Ivan Aleksandrovich promises to find out why Katya's mother, Anna Sergeevna, was arrested, and Nina asks Seva to talk to his father, a member of the district party committee, and do everything possible to have her released...