aside
]. Something new again.
NATO. Buy me a new piano. To-day I saw one at a store; it cost 500 rubles.
ALEXANDER. Five hundred rubles! You cannot buy a decent piano for that!
NATO. Dear Alexander!
ALEXANDER. Be patient awhile, Nato dear. One of my friends brought a piano from abroad that cost 1,000; yes, even 1,500 rubles.
NATO. My sweetheart; my dear sweetheart! [
Kissing him
.] I will come right back. [
Rises