VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Answer the mistress.
GRÍSHA. What's that to you?
MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Answer me! Where have you been all this time?
GRÍSHA. I've done wrong, ma'am.
MADAM ULANBÉKOV. I'm not asking you whether you've done wrong or not; I'm asking you where you were!
GRÍSHA. [Looks at the ceiling with a vacant stare] Why, where should I be? The idea! The same place as usual!
MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Well, where's that?
GRÍSHA. I just informed you that I was there all the time, ma'am.
MADAM ULANBÉKOV. You'll drive me out of patience! Where's there?
GRÍSHA. But, really, ma'am! Your will in everything, ma'am. What did I, ma'am…. I've done wrong, ma'am.