KABANOV. Yes, mamma.
MME. KABANOVA. Well, now everything is ready. The horses are at the door. You've only to say good-bye and be off in God's name.
KABANOV. Yes, mamma, it's time I was off.
MME. KABANOVA. Well?
KABANOV. What do you desire?
MME. KABANOVA. Why are you standing about? Don't you know the way to do things? Lay your commands upon your wife, exhort her how she is to live in your absence.
[Katerina looks on the ground.
KABANOV. But she knows quite well without that.
MME. KABANOVA. The way you talk! Come, come, give your commands, that I may hear what commands you lay upon her! And then when you come back, you can ask if she has performed everything exactly.
KABANOV (standing opposite Katerina). Obey mamma, Katia.