Matryòna (going up steps: looks back). Impertinence! (Puts samovar on table.)
First C. (sings).
“Who has known a captive’s sorrow?
Who shall tell its bitterness?”
(Enter on gallery Karp Kàrpych and Oulìta Nikìtishna. Coachman stops singing, and exit.)
Scene II. On Gallery.
(Karp Kàrpych and Oulìta Nikìtishna sit down at table.)
Oulìta (makes tea). Moiré antique is all the fashion now.
Karp. What do you mean by moiré antique?
Oulìta. It’s a kind of material.