SALOME [
standing up
]. You are insolent! Is it for this you called me in? Can your daughter be compared to my Nato? Is it my fault that your daughter has a wide mouth?
KHALI. You have a wide mouth yourself; and your forward daughter is not a bit prettier than mine!
SALOME. What! you say she is forward? Everyone knows her as a modest and well-behaved girl, while everybody calls yours stupid. Yes, that is true; and if you want to know the truth, I can tell it to you—it is just on that account that he would not have her.
KHALI. Oh, you witch, you! You have caught the poor young man in your nets and deceived him. I would like to know where you are going to get the 7,000 rubles.
SALOME. That is our affair. I would rather have broken my leg than to have come in here.
KHALI. He is up to the ears in debt and is going to give such a dowry!
SALOME [
coming back