DOCTOR. No thanks.… My patients are expecting me.
Sits down to the table. Sásha brings him paper and ink.
LISA. So you're sure it is not croup?
DOCTOR [smiling] Perfectly certain!
KARÉNIN [to Lisa] And now have some tea, or, better still, go and lie down!… Just see what you look like.…
LISA. Oh, now I am alive again. Thank you, you are a true friend! [Presses his hand. Sásha moves away angrily] I am so grateful to you, dear friend! At such times one recog …
KARÉNIN. What have I done? There's really no cause at all to thank me.
LISA. And who stopped up all night? Who fetched the very best doctor?
KARÉNIN. I am already fully rewarded by the fact that Mísha is out of danger; and above all by your kindness.
LISA [presses his hand again and laughs, showing him some money in her hand] That's for the doctor; but I never know how to give it.…