LUKÉRYA. You feel worse because you don't appreciate kindness.
AFÓNYA. I don't need it! I don't need anything.
LUKÉRYA. Well, then just lie on your couch. Do you think I want anything from you? I only spoke out of sympathy. [Silence] What a senseless girl; how senseless! I'm all a-tremble.
KRASNÓV comes in.
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]