LÍZA. What's this, Nádya? You seem beside yourself.
NÁDYA. And I really am beside myself. While she spoiled me, caressed me, then I thought that I was a person like other people; and my thoughts about life were entirely different. But when she began to command me, like a doll; when I saw that I was to have no will of my own, and no protection, then, Líza, despair fell upon me. What became of my fear, of my shame—I don't know. "Only one day, but mine!" I thought; "then come what may, I don't care to inquire. Marry me off to a herdsman, lock me in a castle with thirty locks!…. it's all the same to me!"
LÍZA. I think the master's coming.
LEONÍD enters from the opposite side, in a cloak.
NÁDYA. Well, Líza, isn't he handsome, ha?
LÍZA. Oh, stop! You're either sick or half out of your head!
SCENE II
The same and LEONÍD
LEONÍD. [Approaching] I was thinking you would deceive me by not coming.
NÁDYA. Why did you think so?