SCENE II
The same and KRASNÓV
KRASNÓV. Well, here I am. What a trick I've played! The joke's on Tatyána Danílovna. "Expect me in an hour," I said, and here I am in half an hour, so she'd be surprised. I was invited to tea, but I didn't stay. "Do you think I want tea," I said, "when I have a young wife at home who's waiting for me!" But where is she?
LUKÉRYA. I don't know. Somewhere around. Isn't she in the garden?
KRASNÓV. Send her in right away, I want to give her a present for her kindness to-day.
LUKÉRYA. Right away, right away. [Goes out]
KRASNÓV. [Paces up and dawn in silence; then speaks to himself] Fifty-seven rubles, six and three, nine to Peter Ananyev. [Pause] Has she disappeared? [Paces up and down in silence] Afónya, do you know where my wife went?
AFÓNYA. Don't know. Oh, I feel sick.
KRASNÓV. What's she dallying around for? [Goes to the door] Tatyána Danílovna! Lukérya Danílovna! They don't even answer. What does that mean now? Afanásy, where's my wife?
AFÓNYA. Are you lonesome without her? She'll come, don't be afraid. No matter where she's strolling, she'll come home.
KRASNÓV. [At the door] Tatyána Danílovna!
ULYÁNA comes in.