Pod. To the Voznessénsky, and the week before to the Kazansky Cathedral. But it is all the same—one can pray in any church. (Silence. Podkolyòssin drums on the table with his fingers.) The Ekaterinhof excursions will soon begin now.
Agàfia. In a month, I think.
Pod. Even less than a month.
Agàfia. I expect there will be some pleasant excursions.
Pod. To-day is the eighth—(counts on his fingers)—ninth, tenth, eleventh—in twenty-two days.
Agàfia. Dear me, how soon!
Pod. I don’t count to-day in. (Silence.) What a daring race the Russians are!
Agàfia. How so?
Pod. The working men. They will stand right on the top of anything.... I passed a house to-day that was being plastered; and there stood the plasterer ... afraid of nothing.
Agàfia. Indeed? And where was this?