d for the doctor at once! How many times have I got to say it? It's
your own fault, you've nobody to blame for your tears. Potapych! get this
business over with! I don't like to repeat the same thing ten times over.

_She goes out,_ GAVRILOVNA _after her. Silence_. GAVRILOVNA _returns_.

GAVRILOVNA. She's gone to bed, and banged the door behind her.

POTAPYCH. [_At the window_] Antoshka! Antoshka! Post boy! Saddle the horse
and ride to town for the doctor. Oh, you! Lord!

NADYA. [_Rising from her knees_] Don't you think it's a sin for you to
abuse me, Potapych? What have I ever done to you?

POTAPYCH. What do I care? What do I care about you? When the mistress
really wants something, I have to try to please her in every way; because I
was born her servant.

NADYA. If she had commanded you to kill me, would you have done it?

POTAPYCH. That's not my affair, I can't argue about that.

GAVRILOVNA. That's enough, Nadya, don't cry! God doesn't abandon orphans.

NADYA _falls upon_ GAVRILOVNA'S _bosom_.

LIZA. [_To_ VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA] Well, is your heart content now?

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. Wait, my dear, your turn will come.

LEONID _enters_.

SCENE V

_The same and_ LEONID

LEONID. What's this? What has happened?

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. You made all the trouble yourself, and then ask what
has happened.

LEONID. What trouble did I make? What are you continually thinking up?

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. Now, don't pretend! The whole truth has come out.
You've been having a little fun. What of it? At your age, why shouldn't you
have?

LIZA. She's reported the whole thing to the mistress. The mistress got so
angry that it was awful! And now, sir, she is going to marry Nadya to that
government clerk.

LEONID. Are you sure?

NADYA. The thing's settled, dearest master! I have to answer for last
evening's sport.

LEONID. Is mamma very angry?

GAVRILOVNA. No one dares go near her.

LEONID. But how can that be? Isn't it possible to talk her over somehow or
other?

GAVRILOVNA. Just go and try. No, she won't come out of her room now for
five days; and she won't let any one at all see her there.

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. Do you want to talk your mamma over?

LEONID. Yes.

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. Do you want me to tell you how?

LEONID. Please be so kind, Vasilisa Peregrinovna.

VASILISA PEREGRINOVNA. Well, permit me. Our benefactress is very much hurt
at Grisha, because he didn't spend the night at