Anísya. No.
Neighbor. It's time he was. Hasn't he perhaps stopped at our inn? My sister, Thekla, says there's heaps of sledges standing there as have come from the town.
Anísya. Nan! Nan, I say!
Nan. Yes?
Anísya. You run to the inn and see! Mayhap, being drunk, he's gone there.
Nan (jumps down from the oven and dresses). All right.
Neighbor. And he's taken Akoulína with him?
Anísya. Else he'd not have had any need of going. It's because of her he's unearthed all the business there. "Must go to the bank," he says; "it's time to receive the payments," he says. But it's all her fooling.
Neighbor (shakes her head). It's a bad look-out.
[Silence.