scared of you--you bet we are!

MITYA. [_To_ GUSLIN] There, that's the sort of life I lead! That's the sort
of thing I have to put up with!

RAZLYULYAYEV. It'll drive you to drink--upon my word, it'll drive you to
drink! But you'd better stop thinking about it. [_Sings_.

"One mountain is high,
And another is low;
One darling is far,
And another is near."

_Enter_ LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA, ANNA IVANOVNA, MASHA, _and_ LIZA.

SCENE IX

_The same and_ LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA, ANNA IVANOVNA, MASHA, _and_ LIZA.

ANNA IVANOVNA. Peace, honest company!

RAZLYULYAYEV. I welcome you to our shanty.

MITYA. Our respects! Please come in! What good wind brings you here?

ANNA IVANOVNA. No wind--we just took it into our heads and came. Gordey
Karpych has gone out, and Pelageya Egorovna has gone to lie down, so now we
are free! Be as jolly as you please!

MITYA. I humbly beg you to sit down.

_They sit down_; MITYA _seats himself opposite_ LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA;
RAZLYULYAYEV _walks about_.

ANNA IVANOVNA. It grew dull sitting silent cracking nuts. "Come on, girls,"
said I, "and see the boys," and that suited the girls.

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. What stories you do make up! We never thought of coming
here--that was your idea.

ANNA IVANOVNA. Much you didn't! You were the first! Everybody knows, if a
person wants a thing, then he thinks about it; the boys of the girls, and
the girls of the boys.

RAZLYULYAYEV. Ha, ha, ha! Anna Ivanovna, you have said it exactly.

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. Not a bit of it!

MASHA. [_To_ LIZA] Oh, how embarrassing!

LIZA. Anna Ivanovna, you are just saying what isn't true.

ANNA IVANOVNA. Oh, you modest thing! I'd like to say a word--but it
wouldn't be nice before the boys!--I've been a girl myself. I know all
about it.

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. There are girls and girls!

MASHA. Oh, how embarrassing!

LIZA. What you say sounds very strange to us, and, I must say, it's
disconcerting.

RAZLYULYAYEV. Ha, ha, ha!

ANNA IVANOVNA. What were we talking about just now up-stairs? Do you want
me to tell? Shall I tell them? Well, have you calmed down now?

RAZLYULYAYEV. Ha, ha, ha!

ANNA IVANOVNA. What are _you_ opening your mouth for? It wasn't about
you--don't you worry.

RAZLYULYAYEV. Even if it wasn't about me, still it may be there is some one
who thinks about me. I know what I know! [_Dances to a tune_.

"Who does not love a hussar!
Life without love would be sad!"

ANNA I