BARSSEGH. Say what you wish, but I will do what pleases me. OSSEP. Calm yourself; calm yourself. BARSSEGH. Yes, yes; I will calm you, too. OSSEP. Believe me; it is unworthy of you. BARSSEGH. She has torn her veil, he says. What is a veil, then? A thing that one can buy, and at most costs two rubles. OSSEP. The hair was also not her own. Why do you worry yourself about it? For a two-ruble veil she tore a two-kopeck band. The band is there, and she can fasten the hair on again. BARSSEGH. No, you can't get out of it that way. I will not pardon her for this insolence. OSSEP [_aside_]. Great heaven! BARSSEGH. You'll see! you'll see! OSSEP. Do what you will! I did not come to you on that account. You sent for me by Micho? BARSSEGH. Yes, you are right. Have you brought me my money? Give it to me, quick! OSSEP. How you speak to me! Am I your servant, that you speak so roughly? You surely do not know whom you have before you. Look out, for if I go for you, you will sing another tune. BARSSEGH. That has not happened to me yet! He owes me money, and even here he makes himself important! OSSEP. Do you think because I owe you money I shall stand your insults? I speak politely to you, and I demand the same from you. BARSSEGH. Enough of that! Tell me whether you have brought the money or not. OSSEP. Have I ever kept back from you any of your money? Why should I do it to-day? BARSSEGH. Then give it to me now. OSSEP. You said at that time-- BARSSEGH. I know nothing of that time. OSSEP. What is the matter with you? You speak as if in a dream. BARSSEGH. Whether I speak as in a dream or not, give me the money, and have done with it. OSSEP [_takes a chair and sits down_]. You are mistaken, my dear Mr. Barssegh; you are mistaken. Sit down, pray. BARSSEGH [_ironically_]. Thank you very much. OSSEP. You will surely not take back your word? BARSSEGH. Hand over the money. OSSEP. What has happened to you? You speak like a madman. BARSSEGH. It is all the same to me however I speak. OSSEP. When I gave you the 5,000 rubles that time, did not you say that I was to pay the rest in a month? BARSSEGH [_sitting down_]. And if I did say so, what does it amount to? I need it now. OSSEP. You should have said so at the time and I would not have paid out my money in other ways. How comes it that you demand it so suddenly? I am no wizard, I am sure, to procure it from the stars for you. BARSSEGH. You may get it wherever you want to. I need it, and that settles it. OSSEP. Just heaven! Why did you give me a month's grace and reckon on an additional twelve per cent. for it? BARSSEGH. What kind of grace? Have you anything to show for it? OSSEP. Isn't your word enough? Why do we need a paper in addition? BARSSEGH. I didn't give you my word. OSSEP. What? You did not give it? You admitted it just a few minutes ago. BARSSEGH. No, I said nothing about it.