Peter. What's he standing there for?
Akoulína. What's he standing there for? He stands there jabbering.
Peter. One can't get any sense out of her! Who's he jabbering with?
Akoulína (does not hear). Eh, what?
[PETER waves her off. She sits down to her spinning.
Nan (running in to her mother). Nikíta's father and mother have come. They're going to take him away. It's true!
Anísya. Nonsense!
Nan. Yes. Blest if they're not! (Laughing.) I was just going by, and Nikíta, he says, "Good-bye, Anna Petróvna," he says, "you must come and dance at my wedding. I'm leaving you," he says, and laughs.
Anísya (to her husband). There now. Much he cares. You see, he wants to leave of himself. "Sack him" indeed!
Peter. Well, let him go. Just as if I couldn't find somebody else.