TATYÁNA. [_Kissing him_] Good-by! It's time for me to go! My, how I'm shivering! My legs fairly totter under me. BABÁYEV. Calm yourself a little. Come, I'll walk along the bank with you; you'll get home in time. [_They go out_. AFÓNYA. So this, brother Lev, is what you deserted us for! Just look, and enjoy it! You act like a wild beast to those who love you with their whole soul. I'm burning up like a candle, I'm wasting away because of love and pity for you, and yet I haven't once heard a kind word from you. You doted on your wife, and see what she's up to, the wretch! No, there's no truth in the world, none. [_Goes out_. TABLEAU II _Same room as in_ ACT III SCENE I LUKÉRYA _enters with a candle and places it on a table; later_ AFÓNYA _comes in_. LUKÉRYA. Why doesn't Tánya return! It's high time, She's insane! She's just glad that she got out of here; she doesn't realize that suddenly, when you least expect it, her husband may return. Here I am on pins and needles. When I hear any one at the door my heart almost stops. Every minute seems a year. Afónya torments me too. I wonder where he went. Isn't he spying on her? Of course I can find ten replies to every word he says; yet he may rouse suspicion. Ah, some one is coming! Is it possible that it's Lev! Heaven forbid! I do believe I'll die. [AFÓNYA _comes in, and, groaning, lies down on the stove-couch_] Where have you been? AFÓNYA. Never you mind. LUKÉRYA. Speak, it won't hurt your voice. AFÓNYA. I don't want to talk to you. LUKÉRYA. [_Caressingly_] Don't you feel well, Afónya? AFÓNYA. Oh, Heavens! don't touch me, don't touch! You can't fool me. LUKÉRYA. I don't in the least wish to fool you. AFÓNYA. You fooled brother, but you can't fool me. No, no! LUKÉRYA. I don't understand a bit what you're talking about. AFÓNYA. Oh, I'm exhausted! Go away: out of my sight. Don't torment me. LUKÉRYA. You feel worse because you don't appreciate kindness. AFÓNYA. I don't need it! I don't need anything. LUKÉRYA. Well, then just lie on your couch. Do you think I want anything from you? I only spoke out of sympathy. [_Silence_] What a senseless girl; how senseless! I'm all a-tremble. KRASNÓV comes in. SCENE II The same and KRASNÓV KRASNÓV. Well, here I am. What a trick I've played! The joke's on Tatyána Danílovna. "Expect me in an hour," I said, and here I am in half an hour, so she'd be surprised. I was invited to tea, but I didn't stay. "Do you think I want tea," I said, "when I have a young wife at home who's waiting for me!" But where is she? LUKÉRYA. I don't know. Somewhere around. Isn't she in the garden? KRASNÓV. Send her in right away, I want to give her a present for her kindness to-day. LUKÉRYA. Right away, right away. [_Goes out_] KRASNÓV. [_Paces up and dawn in silence; then speaks to himself_] Fifty-seven rubles, six and three, nine to Peter Ananyev. [_Pause_] Has she disappeared? [_Paces up and down in silence_] Afónya, do you know where my wife went?