Pod. (without). To the canal, by the Semyònovsky bridge.
Cabman (without). I don’t mind going for ten kopecks.
Pod. (without). All right! Make haste!
(Drozhki is heard to drive away. Enter Agàfia in her wedding-dress, walking timidly and hanging her head.)
Agàfia. I really don’t know what is come to me. I feel ashamed again, and I am trembling all over. Oh! I wish he weren’t in the room just this minute; I wish he’d gone out! (Looking round shyly.) Why, where is he? There’s no one here! Where can he be gone? (Opens door into hall and calls.) Fèkla, where is Ivàn Kouzmìch gone?
Fèkla (without). He’s there.
Agàfia. Where?
Fèkla (entering). But he was sitting in this room!
Agàfia. Well, he isn’t here, you see.
Fèkla. He certainly hasn’t gone out of the room! I was sitting in the hall.