ULYÁNA. I'm not the cause of separation. It's she that's breaking up families.
KÚRITSYN. Well, brother! Evidently, if it's the wife's kin—open the door; but if it's the husband's kin—then shut the door. You visit us and we'll show you hospitality. Come, wife, we'd better go home!
ULYÁNA. Well, good-by, sister, but remember! And you, brother, just wait; we'll settle accounts somehow. [They go out.
SCENE III
KRASNÓV, TATYÁNA, LUKÉRYA, and AFÓNYA
KRASNÓV. [Approaching his wife] Tatyána Danílovna, I hope you won't take that to heart, because they're a rough lot.
TATYÁNA. That's the kind of relatives you have! I lived better beyond comparison as a girl; at least I knew that no one dared to insult me.
LUKÉRYA. [Clearing the table] We didn't associate with the common people.
KRASNÓV. And I'll never let you be insulted. You saw I didn't spare my own sister, and drove her out of my house; but if it had been a stranger, he wouldn't have got off alive. You don't know my character yet; at times I'm afraid of myself.
TATYÁNA. What, do you become dreadfully furious?