ANNA PÁVLOVNA [to Doctor] Do you mean to say you are going to stay?
DOCTOR. Yes; I must see, if only once, what it is that Alexéy Vladímiritch has discovered in it. How can we deny anything without proofs?
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Then I am to take it to-night for certain?
DOCTOR. Take what?… Oh, the powder. Yes, it would perhaps be better. Yes, yes, take it.… However, I shall come upstairs again.
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Yes please, do. [Loud] When it is over, mesdames et messieurs, I shall expect you to come to me upstairs to rest from your emotions, and then we will finish our rubber.
FAT LADY. Oh, certainly.
SAHÁTOF. Yes, thanks!
Exit Anna Pávlovna.
BETSY [to Petrístchef] You must stay, I tell you. I promise you something extraordinary. Will you bet?
MÁRYA KONSTANTÍNOVNA. But you don't believe in it?