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THE SAME, SEREBRYAKOV, ORLOVSKY, AND MARIE VASSILIEVNA

ORLOVSKY: I too, old boy, am not quite fit. The last two days my head and my whole body have been aching… .

SEREBRYAKOV: Where are the others? I don’t like this house. It is a labyrinth. Twenty-six huge rooms. They all disperse and you can never find anyone. (Ringing.) Ask George Petrovich and Elena Andreyevna to come here.

ZHELTOUKHIN: Julie, you have nothing to do: go and find George and Elena Andreyevna. [JULIE goes out.

SEREBRYAKOV: One can reconcile oneself to one’s ailments, however hard it may be, but what I can’t stand is this present mood of mine. I have a feeling as though I were already dead, or had fallen off the earth on to a strange planet.

ORLOVSKY: It depends on how you look at it… .

MARIE VASSILIEVNA (reading): Give me a pencil… . There’s a contradiction again! I must mark it.

ORLOVSKY: Here you are, Your Excellency!

(Handing her a pencil and kissing her hand.)

ENTER VOYNITSKY.