ULYÁNA. I've got to run home; I'll tell my husband, then I'll call at your house. [Going away] Wait, brother, wait! I'll get even with you for your insults! [Goes out.
AFÓNYA. Heavens! I haven't any strength! How is one to live in such a world? This is a punishment for our sins! Left her husband for a stranger! She was sitting in a corner starving; we took care of her, gave her fine clothes bought with hard-earned money! Brother denies himself, denies his family, and gives her cash to buy rags, and now she and a stranger are cursing us for the shelter we gave her. It makes me sick! Why don't I die! I'm shedding tears of blood. We've warmed a viper in our bosom. [Leans against the fence] I'll wait, I'll wait. I'll tell her everything, everything that's seething in my heart.
BABÁYEV and TATYÁNA come out of the gate; AFÓNYA hides behind a corner.
SCENE III
AFÓNYA, BABÁYEV, and TATYÁNA
BABÁYEV. What are you afraid of? There's not a soul on the street. Why are you in such a hurry? It isn't half an hour since you came.
TATYÁNA. No, no! Somehow I feel uneasy.
BABÁYEV. I don't understand why you are so afraid. Well, your husband will scold and that's all.
TATYÁNA. I was late the time before; how terribly he acted; I thought he'd kill me. He makes me afraid, frightfully afraid! [Silence] Shall you return soon?
BABÁYEV. In a week, in ten days at most.