BABÁYEV. I think so. What is there to do here? KRASNÓV. Yes, there's nothing to do here. My regards to you! [BABÁYEV, TATYÁNA, _and_ LUKÉRYA _go out_] An unbidden guest is worse than a Tatar. What do we want with him? What use is he to us? I won't have his help; we aren't beggars. Well, be off with you! Go to St. Petersburg, and good luck to you. _Enter_ TATYÁNA _and_ LUKÉRYA. SCENE V KRASNÓV, TATYÁNA, _and_ LUKÉRYA TATYÁNA. What are you doing? Why did you go and insult me so? KRASNÓV. There's no insult! Now, look here! We haven't quarrelled once since our wedding, and I hope that we may never do so, but may always live in love. LUKÉRYA. Fine love, I must say! [KRASNÓV _looks at her sharply._ TATYÁNA. Where is your love? Now we see it very plainly. I must serve your relatives and friends like a cook; but when our friend came, a gentleman, then you almost drove him away. LUKÉRYA. You did drive him away, only in a roundabout fashion. TATYÁNA. You'd better not speak of your love. What do I want with your love when you disgrace me at every step. KRASNÓV. I don't understand the reason for this argument! The whole affair isn't worth discussing. We probably won't ever see him again, and we have no need of him; he went with what he came. We have to live our life together; it isn't worth our having trouble over him. TATYÁNA. Ah, Lusha, what a disgrace! I wonder what he'll think of us now? LUKÉRYA. Yes. He'll soon go back to St. Petersburg; a fine opinion of us he'll take away with him! KRASNÓV. I tell you again, that you should dismiss him and his opinions from your mind. The whole affair isn't worth a kopek. I think that whether he's alive or no, it's all the same to us. TATYÁNA. It may be all the same for you, but not so for us. Sister and I have promised to visit him and we want to go to-day. KRASNÓV. There's no need. TATYÁNA. How, no need? I tell you that I want to see him. KRASNÓV. You want to, but I'm not anxious. Ought you to consider my wishes or not? TATYÁNA. You seem to have assumed authority all of a sudden. You certainly don't imagine that we'll obey you.--No, indeed, _we won't_. KRASNÓV. [_Striking the table_] What do you mean by "no, indeed"? No, if I tell you something, then that has to go. I'm talking sense and what's good for you, and that's why I give you strict orders. [_Again strikes the table._ TATYÁNA. [_Crying_] What tyranny! What torture! LUKÉRYA. [With a laugh] Oh, what a fearful, oh, what a terrible man, ha, ha, ha! KRASNÓV. What are you cackling about? I'll fire you out so fast that your skirts will squeak on the gate. TATYÁNA. Well, do what you like, even kill us, but we'll go. We don't want to show him we're boors. We surely have to thank him for remembering us, and wish him a pleasant journey. KRASNÓV. Tatyána Danílovna, please understand what you are told. TATYÁNA. I hope you aren't going to fight? That'll be just like you. That's what's to be expected.