The Father. I'm coming.
[Exeunt. Guests crowd together in the passage and prepare to go away.
Nan (runs out of the hut and calls to ANÍSYA). Mother!
Anísya (from inside.) What d'you want?
Nan. Mother, come here, or they'll hear.
[ANÍSYA enters and they go together to the shed.
Anísya. Well? What is it? Where's Akoulína?
Nan She's gone into the barn. It's awful what's she's doing there! I'm blest! "I can't bear it," she says. "I'll scream," she says, "I'll scream out loud." Blest if she didn't.
Anísya. She'll have to wait. We'll see our visitors off first.
Nan. Oh, mother! She's so bad! And she's angry too. "What's the good of their drinking my health?" she says. "I shan't marry," she says. "I shall die," she says. Mother, supposing she does die! It's awful. I'm so frightened!