PELAGUEYA (going)

No wonder. You're enough to drive a man to drink. Cranks. (Exit)

LIPA

My, how stifling! I don't know what to do with myself. Say, Savva, why aren't you nicer to Polya? She is such a wretched creature.

SAVVA

A slavish soul.

LIPA

It isn't her fault if she's that way.

SAVVA (coldly)

Nor mine either.