KABANOV. You know what stuff they talk, any nonsense that comes into their heads.
MME. KABANOVA. Don't you criticise your elders! They know better than you. Old people have forewarnings of all sorts. Old people don't talk at random.
KATERINA (to her husband). Dear Tihon, I know who will be struck dead.
VARVARA (to Katerina, softly). If only you would hold your tongue!
KABANOV. How do you know?
KATERINA. It will strike me. Pray for me, then.
[Enter Old Lady with footmen. Katerina with a shriek hides her face.