KUDRIASH (gives a whistle and then sings loudly)
They're all going home! They're all going home! But I won't go home!
BORIS (behind the scenes). I hear!
VARVARA (gets up). Well, good-bye! (yawns, then gives a cool kiss to Kudriash, as if he were an old and very intimate friend). To-morrow mind you come earlier! (Looks in the direction in which Boris and Katerina went away) You've said good-bye enough, you're not parting for ever, you'll see each other to-morrow (yawns and stretches, Katerina hurries in, followed by Boris).
SCENE IX
KUDRIASH, VARVARA, BORIS and KATERINA.
KATERINA. Come, let us go now, let us go! (They go up the path, Katerina turns round). Good-bye!
BORIS. Till to-morrow.