Ast. No.
Stranger. You do not know me?
Ast. No.
Stranger. Have you forgotten me, Astéryi Ivanovitch?
Ast. [almost speechless]. Sasha!
Fomá. What is it? You look as if you had seen a ghost.
Ast. A ghost? There are no such things as ghosts. Would that it were a ghost. It is Sasha.
Fomá. Sasha?
Ast. It is Praskóvya's son alive.
Fomá. Praskóvya's son?