Redemption and two other plays

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Leoníd Fyódoritch. But the slates?

Theodore Ivánitch. They are downstairs. I'll bring them.

[Exit.

Leoníd Fyódoritch. All right then. So don't be afraid, but be at your ease.

Simon. Had I not better take off my coat? One would be more easy like.

Leoníd Fyódoritch. Your coat? Oh no. Don't take that off.

[Exit.

Simon. She tells me to do the same again, and she will again shy things about. How isn't she afraid?

[Enter TÁNYA in her stockings and in a dress of the color of the wall-paper. SIMON laughs.

Tánya. Shsh!... They'll hear! There, stick these matches on your fingers as before. (Sticks them on.) Well, do you remember everything?