NAUM.

Where is Rosa?

SARAH.

In a whisper.

Not so loud,—she is there. (Aloud.) Well, hew was it, Naum? Did you get any credit?

NAUM.

Slowly.

No, mother, I did not get any credit. I am beginning to die, mother,—everybody feels hot, while I am very cold; and I am perspiring, but my perspiration is cold. I met Sonka—Ruzya died already.

SARAH.

You will live yet, Naum, you will live yet.