Vasíly Leoníditch. Isn't it like? Eh, what?
First Peasant. That's just so. It's very resemblant.
Anna Pávlovna. Vovo, leave off, I tell you!
Second Peasant. What's it all about?
Third Peasant. I said, we'd better go to some lodging meanwhile!
[Enter DOCTOR and GREGORY.
Doctor. What's the matter? What's happened?
Anna Pávlovna. Why, you're always saying I must not get excited. Now, how is it possible to keep calm? I do not see my own sister for two months, and am careful about any doubtful visitor—and here are people from Koursk, straight from Koursk, where there is an epidemic of diphtheria, right in my house!
Doctor. These good fellows you mean, I suppose?
Anna Pávlovna. Of course. Straight from a diphtheric place!