Read this passage from "The First Seven Years." What is the chronological order of the events? After the incident with the broken last, angered by Sobel's behavior, the shoemaker decided to let him stew for a week in the rooming house,
although his own strength was taxed dangerously and the business suffered. However, after several sharp nagging warnings from both his wife and
daughter, he went finally in search of Sobel, as he had once before, quite recently, when over some fancied slight-Feld had merely asked him not
to give Miriam so many books to read because her eyes were strained and red--the assistant had left the place in a huff, an incident which, as
usual, came to nothing, for he had returned after the shoemaker had talked to him, and taken his seat at the bench. But this time, after Feld had
plodded through the snow to Sobel's house-he had thought of sending Miriam but the idea became repugnant to him—the burly landlady at the
door informed him in a nasal voice that Sobel was not at home, and though Feld knew this was a nasty lie, for where had the refugee to go? still
for some reason he was not completely sure of-it may have been the cold and his fatigue-he decided not to insist on seeing him. Instead he went
home and hired a new helper.