NATO. And you are going to make a shopkeeper's wife of me, so that everyone will laugh at me [
ready to cry
]; so that I shall be an object of scorn for all. And why have you had me so well educated? Have I learned Russian and French and piano-playing for a man of that sort? What does a shopkeeper want of a piano? Pickle-jars and butter-tubs are useful to him, but not my French! I am curious as to how he would speak to me:
Moi aller, vous joli tu voir
.
SALOME. Enough! enough! you wild girl!
NATO [
crying
]. It is out of the question, mamma. No, not for the world could I marry a business man! I will not have one! I would rather jump into the water than marry one! [
Crying, she gives the money back