BORIS. Yes, let us go! it's more terrible here! [Goes.
SCENE V
The Same, without BORIS and KULIGIN.
MME. KABANOVA. Well, that's a pretty sermon he gave us! Something worth hearing, and no mistake! What have the times come to, when such as he turn teacher! If an old man talks so, what can we expect from the young ones!
A WOMAN. The whole sky's overcast. It's covered up all over, as it were, with a cap.
FIRST. Eh, mate, see how the storm cloud is rolling into a ball, as though there were something alive turning round in it. And see how it's creeping up towards us, creeping like a live thing!
SECOND. Mark my words, that storm's not coming up for nothing. It's the truth I tell you; I know. It'll strike someone dead, or set fire to a house; you'll see, look what an extraordinary colour!
KATERINA (listening). What are they saying? They say someone will be struck dead.