KATERINA. What for?
VARVARA. For nothing at all, teaching him to mind what he's about. He'll be a fortnight away out of her sight! Only fancy! She has an uneasy inkling all the time that he'll enjoy himself when he's his own master. And so she's busy now laying all sorts of injunctions upon him, each more imperative than the last, and then she'll take him up to the holy picture and make him swear solemnly that he'll do everything exactly and precisely according to her bidding.
KATERINA. And so even when he's free he'll be as good as bound.
VARVARA. Bound! Oh, will he! As soon as he gets away, he'll start drinking, you may be sure. He says nothing now, but all the while he's only thinking how to get away as soon as possible.
[Enter Mme. Kabanova and Kabanov.
SCENE III
The Same with KABANOV and MADAME KABANOVA.
MME. KABANOVA. Now do you remember everything I've told you? Mind you do remember it! Keep it in your heart!