Leoníd Fyódoritch. I know nothing about it.
Anna Pávlovna. It's your duty to know, if you are the head of the family. Such things must not be done.
Leoníd Fyódoritch. But I never thought.... I thought....
Anna Pávlovna. It is sickening to listen to you!
[LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH remains silent.
Anna Pávlovna (to THEODORE IVÁNITCH). Turn them out at once! They are to leave my kitchen immediately! It is terrible! No one listens to me; they do it out of spite.... I turn them out from there, and they bring them in here! And with my illness.... (Gets more and more excited, and at last begins to cry.) Doctor! Doctor! Peter Petróvitch!... He's gone too!...
[Exit, sobbing, followed by LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH.
[All stand silent for a long time.
Third Peasant. Botheration take them all! If one don't mind, the police will be after one here. And I have never been to law in all my born days. Let's go to some lodging-house, lads!
Theodore Ivánitch. (to TÁNYA). What are we to do?