GOVERNOR [making an angry gesture at Bobchinsky. To Khlestakov]. Oh, it's nothing. Now, if you please, sir, we'll go. I'll tell your servant to carry your luggage over. [Calls Osip.] Here, my good fellow, take all your master's things to my house, the Governor's. Anyone will tell you where it is. By your leave, sir. [Makes way for Khlestakov and follows him; then turns and says reprovingly to Bobchinsky.] Couldn't you find some other place to fall in? Sprawling out here like a lobster! Goes out. After him Bobchinsky. Curtain falls. ACT III SCENE: The same as in Act I. SCENE I Anna Andreyevna and Marya Antonovna standing at the window in the same positions as at the end of Act I. ANNA. There now! We've been waiting a whole hour. All on account of your silly prinking. You were completely dressed, but no, you have to keep on dawdling.--Provoking! Not a soul to be seen, as though on purpose, as though the whole world were dead. MARYA. Now really, mamma, we shall know all about it in a minute or two. Avdotya must come back soon. [Looks out of the window and exclaims.] Oh, mamma, someone is coming--there down the street! ANNA. Where? Just your imagination again!--Why, yes, someone is coming. I wonder who it is. A short man in a frock coat. Who can it be? Eh? The suspense is awful! Who can it be, I wonder. MARYA. Dobchinsky, mamma. ANNA. Dobchinsky! Your imagination again! It's not Dobchinsky at all. [Waves her handkerchief.] Ho, you! Come here! Quick! MARYA. It is Dobchinsky, mamma. ANNA. Of course, you've got to contradict. I tell you, it's not Dobchinsky. MARYA. Well, well, mamma? Isn't it Dobchinsky? ANNA. Yes, it is, I see now. Why do you argue about it? [Calls through the window.] Hurry up, quick! You're so slow. Well, where are they? What? Speak from where you are. It's all the same. What? He is very strict? Eh? And how about my husband? [Moves away a little from the window, exasperated.] He is so stupid. He won't say a word until he is in the room. SCENE II Enter Dobchinsky. ANNA. Now tell me, aren't you ashamed? You were the only one I relied on to act decently. They all ran away and you after them, and till now I haven't been able to find out a thing. Aren't you ashamed? I stood godmother to your Vanichka and Lizanko, and this is the way you treat me. DOBCHINSKY. Godmother, upon my word, I ran so fast to pay my respects to you that I'm all out of breath. How do you do, Marya Antonovna? MARYA. Good afternoon, Piotr Ivanovich. ANNA. Well, tell me all about it. What is happening at the inn? DOBCHINSKY. I have a note for you from Anton Antonovich. ANNA. But who is he? A general? DOBCHINSKY. No, not a general, but every bit as good as a general, I tell you. Such culture! Such dignified manners! ANNA. Ah! So he is the same as the one my husband got a letter about. DOBCHINSKY. Exactly. It was Piotr Ivanovich and I who first discovered him. ANNA. Tell me, tell me all about it.