Three Sisters. (1970) Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 2nd November 1970.  Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile.  Jeanne Watts - Olga Joan Plowright - Masha Louise Purnell - Irina Derek Jacobi - Andrei Sheila Reid - Natasha Kenneth MacKintosh - Schoolmaster Daphne Heard - Anfissa Harry Lomax - Ferrapont Judy Wilson - Serving-maid Mary Griffiths - Housemaid Ronald Pickup - The Baron Laurence Olivier - The Doctor Frank Wylie - Vassili Vassilich Alan Bates - Vershinin Richard Kay - Fedotik David Belcher - Rode George Selway - Orderly David Munro - Officer Alan Adams - Officer Rob Walker - Officer (as Robert Walker) Harry Fielder - The Devil

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00:00:00.

00:00:40it's exactly a year ago today since father died isn't it this very day your

00:00:47Saints Day arena I remember it was very cold and it was snowing I thought then

00:00:55that I should never survive his death and now a year's gone by and we talk about it

00:01:00so easily clock struck 12 then too remember when father's being taken to the

00:01:09cemetery there was a military band and a rifle salute because he was a general yet

00:01:15there weren't many people at the funeral of course it was snowing why all these

00:01:21memories it's so warm today we can keep the windows wide open there aren't many

00:01:29leaves on the trees this father was made a general 11 years ago and then we left

00:01:38Moscow I remember so well how everything in Moscow was in the blossom by now

00:01:43everything soaked in sunlight and warm when I woke up this morning I felt such a

00:01:56longing to get back home to Moscow I suppose I get this

00:02:12continuous headache because I have to teach every day at the school right

00:02:15through until the evening honestly I've been feeling as if my strength and youth

00:02:18were running out of me drop my throat if only we could go back to Moscow sell the

00:02:23house and give up with our living here and go back yes to Moscow as soon as

00:02:27possible

00:02:33the only problem is I'll call Marsha Marsha can come and stay with us the whole

00:02:39summer every year in Moscow everything will settle itself with God's help

00:02:46lovely weather really I don't know why there's such joy in my heart I I woke up this morning and

00:02:53I

00:02:53remembered it was my Saints Day and I felt so happy and I thought of the time when we

00:02:58were children and mother was still alive you look lovely today really most

00:03:04Marsha looks pretty today too Andre could be good-looking but he's grown so stout it

00:03:09doesn't suit him as for me I've aged and grown a lot thinner I suppose it's getting so

00:03:17irritated with those girls at school I'm only 28 after all I suppose everything that God

00:03:25wills must be right and good I can't help thinking sometimes if I married and stayed at home things

00:03:30would have been a lot better for me I should have been very fond of my husband really you talk

00:03:36such a lot of

00:03:36nonsense I'm tired of listening to you oh I forgot to tell you Bershinin our new

00:03:42battery commander is going to call on you today oh good I'm glad is you not particularly 40 he seems

00:03:49quite a nice fellow certainly not a fool his only weakness is that he talks too much

00:03:56is he interesting that's all right he's got a wife and mother-in-law and two little girls what's more

00:04:02it's his

00:04:03second wife he goes around telling everybody that he's got a wife two little girls well he'll tell you about

00:04:08it too I'm sure of that

00:04:11wife seems to be a little soft in the head she often tries to commit suicide apparently just to

00:04:19annoy him now I can only lift 60 pounds with one hand but with two hands I can lift 200

00:04:24pounds or even

00:04:25sometimes 240 therefore I conclude from that that two men are not only twice as strong as one man

00:04:31but three times as strong sometimes even more

00:04:34it is a recipe for falling hair two ounces of naphthalene half a bottle of methylated spirits

00:04:41dissolve and apply once a day doctor dear doctor what is it my child what is it tell me why

00:04:48I'm so happy

00:04:49today just as if I were sailing along in a boat with big white sails and above me the wide

00:04:56blue sky and in the sky great white birds

00:05:00my little white bird you know after I woke up this morning and when I got dressed I suddenly felt

00:05:08as if as if everything in the world would suddenly become clear to me and I knew the way I

00:05:14ought to live man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his glass and that should make up

00:05:22the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness

00:05:27oh how good it must be to be a workman getting up with the sun breaking the stones by the

00:05:33roadside or a school teacher teaching the children

00:05:39oh good heavens it is better to be an ox or a horse and work and the sort of young

00:05:46woman who wakes up at 12 drinks her coffee in bed and and then takes two hours dressing father always

00:05:52taught us to get up at seven so even always wakes at seven but then she stays in bed to

00:05:56sleep and then she stays in bed to sleep and then she stays in bed to sleep and then she

00:05:56takes two hours dressing

00:05:56well at least nine thinking about something or other means such a serious expression on her face too

00:06:01you think it's strange when I look serious because you almost think of me as a little girl

00:06:06I'm 20 you know

00:06:12all this talk of work heavens how well I can understand it I've never done the stroke of work in

00:06:17my life

00:06:18I was born in Petersburg an unfriendly idle city born into a family where work and worries were simply unknown

00:06:24I remember a valet pulling off my boots for me when I came home from the cadet school

00:06:29I grumbled at the way he did it and my mother looked on in admiration she was quite surprised if

00:06:34other people looked at me in any other way

00:06:36I was so carefully protected from work

00:06:39the time is coming

00:06:41a terrific thundercloud is advancing upon us

00:06:44a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up

00:06:48and it will blow away all this

00:06:50idleness

00:06:51and indifference and prejudice against work

00:06:53this rot of boredom that our society is suffering from

00:06:57I'm going to work

00:06:58and in 25 or 30 years time every man and woman will be working

00:07:01every one of us

00:07:03you know I'm not going to work

00:07:05when you don't come

00:07:06in 25 years time you won't be alive thank goodness

00:07:10in a couple of years you'll die of a stroke

00:07:12or I shall lose my temper with you and put a bullet through your head my dear chap

00:07:16it's quite true I haven't done a stroke of work since I left university

00:07:20I haven't even read a book or any newspapers

00:07:23here for instance

00:07:24I know from this paper that there was a person called Dobri Olov

00:07:28but who or what he was I haven't finished idea

00:07:31got a lone nose

00:07:35ah

00:07:37they're calling for me to come down

00:07:42somebody has come to see me

00:07:47I'll be back in a moment

00:07:52he's up to one of his little games

00:07:54obviously going to give you a present

00:07:56oh I do dislike this sort of thing

00:07:58yes isn't it dreadful he's always doing something silly

00:08:01a green oak grows by a curving shore

00:08:06around that oak has a golden chain

00:08:19you're sad today Marsha

00:08:25oh where are you going?

00:08:28home

00:08:30what?

00:08:32going away from your sister's party

00:08:33what does it matter?

00:08:36I'll be back this evening

00:08:40goodbye my darling

00:08:42once again I wish you all the happiness in the world

00:08:46in the old days when father was alive

00:08:48we used to have 30 or 40 officers at our parties

00:08:52what gay parties they were

00:08:54and today what have we got today?

00:08:56a man and a half

00:08:57and the place is as quiet as the two

00:09:00I'm depressed today I'm sad I'm going home so don't listen to me

00:09:03me you are

00:09:05do stop snivelling

00:09:08come along my dear

00:09:10this way

00:09:11come in

00:09:13your boots are quite clean

00:09:14a cake from pot-o-pop-off at the council office

00:09:19thank you

00:09:20tell him I'm grateful to him

00:09:21what's that?

00:09:22tell him I sent my thanks

00:09:24give him some pie nanny

00:09:25go along Ferrapont they'll give you some pie

00:09:27what's that?

00:09:27come along with me Ferrapont my dear

00:09:29come along

00:09:30that's right

00:09:33I don't like that pot-o-pop-off fellow

00:09:35Mikhail Ivanich Potapich

00:09:37whatever they call him

00:09:38it's best not to invite him here

00:09:39I haven't invited him

00:09:41thank goodness

00:10:08a samovar but this is dreadful

00:10:11oh my dear doctor what are you thinking about?

00:10:14what did I tell you?

00:10:15Ivan reminded she ought to be ashamed of yourself

00:10:21my dear sweet girl

00:10:24I've no one in the world but you

00:10:28I'm an old man

00:10:30a lonely

00:10:30utterly unimportant old man

00:10:34the only thing that means anything to me

00:10:35is my love for you

00:10:38if it weren't for you

00:10:39I would have been dead long ago

00:10:44oh my sweet little girl

00:10:48haven't I known you since the day you were born?

00:10:50didn't I carry you about in my arm

00:10:52this one?

00:10:53and I love your dear mother

00:10:56why do you buy such expensive presents?

00:10:58expensive presents?

00:11:00well get along with you

00:11:02put the samovar over there

00:11:04expensive presents

00:11:18my dear

00:11:20there's a strange colonel just arrived

00:11:22he's taken off his coat

00:11:24and he's coming up now

00:11:26do be nice and polite to him won't you?

00:11:28and it's high time we had lunch too

00:11:30oh dear oh dear

00:11:31it's machining I suppose

00:11:39allow me to introduce myself

00:11:40lieutenant colonel Verginin

00:11:43I'm so glad so very glad to be here at last

00:11:46how you've changed dear

00:11:48dear how you've changed

00:11:51please do sit down

00:11:58we're very pleased to see you

00:11:59and I'm so glad to see you

00:12:01so glad

00:12:03but there were three of you weren't there

00:12:04I seem to remember there were three sisters

00:12:06I don't remember their faces

00:12:07but I knew your father colonel Kozorov

00:12:09and I remember you had three little girls

00:12:12how time flies dear dear how it flies

00:12:15and Verginin comes from Moscow

00:12:17from Moscow?

00:12:19you come from Moscow?

00:12:20yes yes from Moscow

00:12:22your father was a battery commander there when I was an officer in the

00:12:26in the same brigade

00:12:27I seem to remember your face a little

00:12:31I don't remember you at all

00:12:32it seems lieutenant colonel Verginin comes from Moscow

00:12:35you must be Olga the eldest

00:12:38and you are Maria and Nina and you are Avina the youngest

00:12:42you come from Moscow?

00:12:44yes yes I studied in Moscow and entered the service there

00:12:46I stayed there quite a long time but then I was

00:12:49I was put in charge of a battery so

00:12:52I moved out here you see

00:12:54I don't really remember you you know

00:12:56I just remember there were three sisters

00:12:58I remember your father though

00:13:00I remember him very well

00:13:02all I need to do is close my eyes

00:13:05and I can see him standing there as if he were alive

00:13:09I used to visit you in Moscow

00:13:10I thought I remembered everybody

00:13:12my four names are Alexander Ignatievich

00:13:13Alexander Ignatievich and you come from Moscow

00:13:16we're going to live there you know

00:13:17yes we hope to be there by the autumn

00:13:19it's our hometown we were born there

00:13:21I remember

00:13:23do you remember Olga?

00:13:25there was someone they used to call the lovesick major

00:13:27oh no no no

00:13:29you were a lieutenant then and you were in love with someone or other

00:13:33and everyone used to tease you about it

00:13:35they called you major for some reason or other

00:13:38that's it this is the lovesick major they called me

00:13:42you didn't have a mustache then

00:13:43no

00:13:47oh dear

00:13:49how much older you look

00:13:51oh oh how much older

00:13:53yes well I was still a young man when they called me the lovesick major

00:13:58I was in love then

00:14:01it's different love

00:14:02but you haven't got a single grey hair

00:14:04you've aged yes but you're certainly not an old man

00:14:06nevertheless time has passed

00:14:09is it long since you left Moscow?

00:14:11eleven years

00:14:13what are you crying for Marsha you funny girl

00:14:16you make me cry too

00:14:17I'm not crying

00:14:19what was the street you lived in?

00:14:21Basmania street

00:14:22oh which is true

00:14:23I used to walk from there to the Krasny Valets

00:14:27I remember I had to cross a very gloomy bridge

00:14:31I remember how lonely and sad I felt there

00:14:40oh

00:14:43what a magnificently wide river you have here

00:14:46it's a marvellous river

00:14:48yes but it's a cold place and there are too many mosquitoes

00:14:50really?

00:14:52I should have said you had a really good healthy climate here

00:14:55a real Russian climate

00:14:58there is one rather strange thing

00:14:59the station is 15 miles from the town and no one knows why

00:15:03I know why

00:15:06if the station were nearer

00:15:07it couldn't be so far away

00:15:09and as it is so far away it can't be nearer

00:15:12well you like your little jumps are you?

00:15:14I remember you now I know I do

00:15:17I knew your mother

00:15:18she was a good woman

00:15:20could bless her memory

00:15:24Mama was buried in Moscow

00:15:27you know I'm even beginning to forget what she looked like

00:15:31I suppose people will lose all memory of us in just the same way

00:15:35we'll be forgotten

00:15:36oh yeah we shall all be forgotten

00:15:38such is our fate we can't do anything about it

00:15:41and all the things that seem serious and important

00:15:45and full of meaning to us now will be forgotten one day

00:15:48or at least they won't seem important anymore

00:16:02it may well be that in time to come

00:16:04the life we live now will seem strange and uncomfortable and stupid

00:16:10and not too clean either

00:16:12and perhaps even wicked

00:16:14who can tell it's just as possible that future generations will think that we lived our lives on a very

00:16:19high plane

00:16:20and remember us with respect

00:16:23after all we no longer have tortures and public executions

00:16:25and invasions

00:16:28though there is still a great deal of suffering

00:16:32there's nothing the good baron likes so much as a nice bit of philosophizing

00:16:36so I only kindly leave me alone when you it's becoming very tiresome

00:16:45you said just now baron that this was a great age that we live in

00:16:50the people are small all the same

00:16:54look how small I am

00:17:01that's Andre playing the violin

00:17:02he's our brother you know

00:17:05we've got a very clever brother

00:17:07we're expecting him to be a professor

00:17:09Papa was a military man but Andre chose an academic career

00:17:12we've been teasing him today we think he's in love just a little

00:17:16with the girl who lives down here she'll be calling in today most likely

00:17:19the way she dresses is awful

00:17:22it's not that her clothes are ugly and old fashioned they're simply pathetic

00:17:26Andre's not in love with her I can't believe it after all he has got some taste

00:17:30I heard yesterday that she's going to marry Protopopov

00:17:34the chairman of the local council

00:17:36I thought it was an excellent idea

00:17:40Andre?

00:17:44come here will you?

00:17:46just a moment

00:17:55this is my brother Andre

00:18:00I believe you've been appointed battery commander

00:18:01what do you think dear the colonel comes from Moscow

00:18:04how do you really? congratulations

00:18:07you get no peace from my sisters now

00:18:09I'm afraid your sisters must be getting tired of me already

00:18:11do you see this little picture frame? Andre gave it to me today

00:18:16he made it himself

00:18:18yes it's very nice indeed

00:18:20and you see that one over the piano he made that one too

00:18:23and he's got a degree and he plays the violin and he makes all sorts of things about

00:18:26Andre come here he's got such a bad habit always going off like this

00:18:29now come just here

00:18:30come here

00:18:31please leave me alone

00:18:32oh you are a silly

00:18:33they used to call colonel Vecchini the lovesick major and he didn't get annoyed

00:18:37not in the least

00:18:38I feel like calling you the lovesick fiddler

00:18:39you're the lovesick professor

00:18:41he's for love and real love

00:18:44how sweet you created us for love

00:18:47that's enough that's enough

00:18:49hey

00:18:50I didn't sleep the whole night

00:18:51not feeling too glad

00:18:54I read till four then I went to bed

00:18:56nothing happened

00:18:57I kept thinking about one thing and another

00:19:00I want to translate a book from the English while I'm here

00:19:02you read English then?

00:19:04oh yes

00:19:04my father god bless his memory used to wear us out with the learning

00:19:08it sounds silly I know but I must confess that since he died I began to grow stout

00:19:11as though I'd been physically relieved of the strain

00:19:14I've grown quite stout in the air

00:19:16thanks to father my sisters and I know French, German, English

00:19:19the arena knows Italian

00:19:22what an effort it cost us all though

00:19:24knowing three languages in a town like this is an unnecessary luxury

00:19:28in fact it's not even a luxury

00:19:29it's a sort of useless encumbrance like a sixth finger

00:19:33really?

00:19:34it seems to me there's nowhere on earth

00:19:37however dull and depressing

00:19:39where intelligence and education can never be useless

00:19:42now let us suppose that among the

00:19:44hundred thousand people at this time

00:19:46all of them no doubt very backward and uncultured

00:19:49there are just three people like yourselves

00:19:53obviously you can't hope to triumph over the mass of ignorance around you

00:19:57life will swallow you up

00:19:58but you won't quite disappear

00:19:59you'll make some impression on it

00:20:02and after you've gone perhaps

00:20:04six more people like you will turn up

00:20:06and then twelve and so on

00:20:08until in the end almost everyone will have become like you

00:20:10so that in two or three hundred years time

00:20:12life on this old earth of ours will have become

00:20:16marvellously beautiful

00:20:18a man longs for a life like that

00:20:21and if it isn't here yet then he must imagine it, wait for it

00:20:26dream about it

00:20:28he must know and see more than his father and his grandfather did

00:20:35and you're complaining because you know a lot of stuff that's useless

00:20:41I'll be staying to lunch

00:20:44someone should have written all that down

00:20:49you say that in time to come life will be marvellously beautiful

00:20:52now that's probably true

00:20:53but in order to share in it now

00:20:55at a distance so to speak you must prepare for it and work for it

00:20:58yes

00:21:01a lot of flowers you have here

00:21:04what a marvellous house I do envy you

00:21:06all my life I seem to have been pigging it in small flats with two chairs and a stove that

00:21:11always smokes

00:21:13it's the flowers I've missed most in my life

00:21:18flowers like these

00:21:22oh well

00:21:23never mind

00:21:26yes

00:21:27we must work

00:21:31you're probably thinking that I'm a sentimental German but I assure you I'm not, I'm Russian

00:21:34I don't speak a word of German

00:21:36my father was baptised in the Greek Orthodox faith

00:21:43you know

00:21:45I often wonder what it would be like

00:21:47if we could start our lives all over again consciously

00:21:50I mean deliberately

00:21:52suppose

00:21:54we could put aside the life we lived already as though it were sort of

00:21:58rough draft and start another one like a fair copy

00:22:02I think if that happened the thing you'd want most would be not to repeat yourself

00:22:07I have a wife you know

00:22:08and two little girls

00:22:11and my wife's not very well in a way

00:22:16oh if I had to start my life again I wouldn't marry

00:22:19no no

00:22:24congratulations dear sister from the bottom of my heart

00:22:28congratulations on your saints day

00:22:30I wish you good health and everything a girl of your age ought to have

00:22:33allow me to present you with this little book

00:22:35it's the history of our school covering the whole 50 years of its existence

00:22:38I wrote it myself

00:22:40good morning to you all

00:22:41allow me to introduce myself

00:22:43Kulegian's the name, I'm a master at the secondary school here

00:22:45and a town councillor

00:22:47you'll find a list in the book of all the pupils who've completed their studies at our school

00:22:51during the last 50 years

00:22:53fakey, cod, pottery, facient, meliora, patentes

00:22:59you gave me this look last Easter

00:23:01did I really?

00:23:03in that case give it me back

00:23:05no, better give it to the colonel

00:23:07please do take it colonel

00:23:10maybe you'll read it sometime when you've nothing better to do

00:23:12well that's very kind of you

00:23:15well I'm so glad to have made your acquaintance

00:23:17well you're not going really you mustn't

00:23:19stay and have lunch with us please do

00:23:21oh please do

00:23:21I see I have intruded on your saints day party I didn't know

00:23:25forgive me for not offering you my congratulations

00:23:28today is Sunday my friend

00:23:31a day of rest

00:23:32that has rest and enjoyed

00:23:34each according to his age and position in life

00:23:37the Romans enjoyed good health

00:23:39because they knew how to work and how to rest

00:23:42they had mens sana incorporate sana

00:23:47their life had a definite shape

00:23:51a form

00:23:53a thing that loses its form is finished

00:23:59I'm cheerful today

00:24:02Marsha loves me

00:24:04my wife loves me

00:24:06I'm quite excellent spirits

00:24:10Marsha we're invited to the directors at four o'clock

00:24:12a country walk's been arranged for the teachers and their families

00:24:15I'm not going

00:24:16Marsha darling why not

00:24:17I'll tell you later

00:24:19oh all right I'll come only leave me alone now

00:24:24after the walk we shall all spend the evening at the directors house

00:24:29in spite of weak health that man certainly spurs no pains to be sociable

00:24:33first-rate

00:24:34thoroughly enlightened man

00:24:36he's an excellent person

00:24:39after the conference yesterday he said to me

00:24:41I'm tired Fyodor Illich

00:24:43I'm tired

00:24:51your clock's seven minutes fast

00:24:54yes

00:24:54yes I'm tired you say

00:24:57will you all come and sit down please

00:24:58lunch is ready there's a pie

00:25:00a pie?

00:25:02remember

00:25:03you're not to take anything to drink today do you hear it's bad for you

00:25:06don't worry I got over that weakness long ago

00:25:08I haven't done any heavy drinking for two years now

00:25:11I don't have any idea what difference does it make?

00:25:13all the same don't you dare drink anything mind you don't now

00:25:16so now I have to spend another

00:25:19those damnably boring evenings at the directors

00:25:21well I wouldn't go if I were you and that's that

00:25:23don't you go my dear

00:25:25don't go indeed

00:25:26oh what a damnable life it's intolerable

00:25:29well well

00:25:35stop it Salioni I've really had enough

00:25:45your health colonel

00:25:49I'm a schoolmaster and I'm quite one of a family here as it were

00:25:52I'm Marsha's husband

00:25:53she's got a sweet nature such a very sweet nature

00:25:56I think I'll try a little of this

00:26:01your health

00:26:01thank you

00:26:03I feel so happy with you

00:26:06thank you

00:26:09thank you

00:26:10Andre

00:26:14Andre please come

00:26:15come

00:26:18come

00:26:20come

00:26:21come

00:26:22come

00:26:23come

00:26:25come

00:26:26come

00:26:27come

00:26:28come

00:26:29come

00:26:31come

00:26:37Marcia's a bit out of humor today

00:26:40do you know she was 18 when she got married?

00:26:43and then her husband seemed like the cleverest man in the world to her

00:26:47it's different now

00:26:49oh he's the kindest of men but he's not the cleverest

00:26:57what are you thinking?

00:27:01nothing special

00:27:05you know I don't like that man Salioni

00:27:08I'm quite frightened of him whenever he opens his mouth he says something silly

00:27:12he's a strange fellow I'm sorry for him even though he irritates me

00:27:15I think he's shy of him

00:27:16when he's alone with me he can be quite sensible and friendly but

00:27:19in company he's

00:27:21a bully and offensive

00:27:23don't go in yet

00:27:24give them time to get settled down

00:27:26what are you thinking about? today you're 20

00:27:29but years and years we still have ahead of us

00:27:31a whole succession of years all full of my love for you

00:27:33oh don't talk to me of love Nicola

00:27:35oh I long so passionately for life I long to work

00:27:38all this Lonnie's somehow mingled with my love for you Irene

00:27:43and just because you are beautiful life is beautiful to me

00:27:46tell me what do you think?

00:27:49you say life is beautiful

00:27:52I mean that is

00:27:54but what if it only seems beautiful I mean our lives

00:27:57the lives of us three sisters haven't been very beautiful up to now

00:28:04I'm afraid I'm crying

00:28:06so necessary

00:28:08we must work

00:28:11the reason we feel so depressed and take such a gloomy view of life

00:28:15is because we've never known what it's like to make a real effort

00:28:19where the children of parents who despise work

00:28:28my hair seems to be all right

00:28:31oh my dear Irene

00:28:34congratulations

00:28:36you've got such a lot of visitors I feel quite shy

00:28:38how do you do Baron?

00:28:39I'm the Tali of Barnabas

00:28:40how are you my dear?

00:28:42congratulations

00:28:42you've got such a lot of people here I feel dreadfully shy

00:28:45oh they're all old friends

00:28:47oh my dear you've got bean belt on

00:28:51surely that's a mistake

00:28:52why?

00:28:53is it a bad omen?

00:28:55of what?

00:28:57no but it just doesn't go with your dress

00:28:59it looks so strange

00:29:01really?

00:29:02oh but it isn't really green you know

00:29:04it's a sort of an owl colour

00:29:07yes I will

00:29:08wonder

00:29:17I remember when I was away

00:29:19Marina

00:29:20you know I do wish you would find yourself a good husband

00:29:23in my view it's high time you got married

00:29:25you want to find yourself a nice little husband too Natalia

00:29:29Natalia already has a husband in view

00:29:32glass of wine for me please

00:29:34oh yes

00:29:36three cheers for our jolly old life we keep our end up we do

00:29:39Marta you won't get more than five out of ten for good conduct

00:29:42this liqueur is delicious what's it made of?

00:29:46black people

00:29:46oh how disgusting

00:29:49there's roast turkey for supper tonight and then apple tart

00:29:51you must all come this evening

00:29:52oh may I come?

00:29:53oh yes please do

00:29:54they don't stand on ceremony here

00:29:57nature created us for love and love

00:29:58oh stop it aren't you tired of me yes stop it

00:30:01oh look they're having lunch already

00:30:03having their lunch?

00:30:04so they are they're having lunch already

00:30:06wait half a minute

00:30:06oh it's one

00:30:13just one minute more

00:30:21two

00:30:22all over now

00:30:24all the best and everything you wish yourself

00:30:27marvelous weather today simply gorgeous

00:30:29I've been out the whole morning walking with the boys

00:30:32oh

00:30:33you know I teach gym at the high school don't you?

00:30:36you may move now or you know that is if you want to

00:30:39you do look so attractive today

00:30:41by the way look at this top

00:30:43it's got a wonderful hum

00:30:45I've got a hum

00:30:46isn't it sweet?

00:30:48that's it

00:30:51it's a sweet little thing

00:30:54green oak grows

00:30:56green oak grows wide fair and sure

00:30:58green oak grows wide fair and sure

00:30:59green oak grows wide fair and sure

00:31:02keep saying that those lines have been worrying me all day long

00:31:04you know we're 13 at table

00:31:06you don't really believe in those old superstitions do you?

00:31:08when 13 people sit down at the table

00:31:10it means that some of them are in love

00:31:13is it you by any chance Chibutki?

00:31:16yes

00:31:17I'm just an old sinner

00:31:20but I don't understand why Natalia is so embarrassed

00:31:29now pass you to catsats please wait

00:31:31I feel so ashamed I don't know it wasn't that

00:31:34please don't get upset

00:31:36they don't mean harm they're just teasing us

00:31:38they're really fond of us both

00:31:41let's go out in the veranda

00:31:42they're conscious

00:31:42but you see

00:31:45I'm not used to being with such a lot of people

00:31:48you see so young

00:31:49so wonderfully beautifully young

00:31:52believe me I feel so happy so full of

00:31:55love of joy

00:31:57they're conscious they're conscious there

00:32:00I want you to marry me

00:32:02I love you I

00:32:04I love you as a

00:32:05a

00:32:12a

00:32:18a

00:32:19a

00:32:20e

00:32:21a

00:32:54What are you doing, Andrusia? Reading.

00:32:57It's all right. I just wanted to know.

00:33:26What's the matter Natasha?

00:33:28I was just going around to make sure that nobody's left a light anywhere.

00:33:32It's carnival.

00:33:35The servants get so excited about it.

00:33:37I've got to watch them.

00:33:41What time is it?

00:33:43Quarter past eight.

00:33:44And Olga and Irina not back from work yet.

00:33:47Poor things.

00:33:49This morning I said to Irina, do take care of yourself, my dear, but she won't listen.

00:33:54Did you say it was a quarter past eight?

00:33:56Yeah.

00:33:58I'm afraid Bob Eak is not at all well.

00:34:01Why does he get so cold?

00:34:03Yesterday he had a temperature, but today he's quite cold when you touch him.

00:34:08I'm so afraid.

00:34:09So I'll let Natasha the boys well enough.

00:34:11Still, I think he ought to have a special diet.

00:34:13I'm so anxious about him.

00:34:16By the way, they tell me some carnival party is supposed to be coming here soon after nine.

00:34:21I'd rather they didn't come, Andrusia.

00:34:23I don't know what I can do about it.

00:34:24They've been asked to come.

00:34:26This morning the dear little fellow woke up and looked at me and suddenly he smiled.

00:34:30He recognized me, you see.

00:34:33Babies understand everything, you know.

00:34:36Anyway, Andrusia, I'll tell the servants not to let the carnival party in.

00:34:40Well, it's for my sisters to decide, isn't it?

00:34:42It is their house after all.

00:34:45Yes.

00:34:45It's their house as well.

00:34:48I'll tell them too.

00:34:49They're so kind.

00:34:52I've ordered sour milk for supper.

00:34:54Doctor says you're to eat nothing but sour milk or he'll never get any thinner.

00:34:59But he'd feel so cold.

00:35:02I'm afraid his room's too cold for him.

00:35:04He ought to move into a warmer room.

00:35:06At least until the warmer weather comes.

00:35:07Irina's room for instance.

00:35:10But that's a perfect room for a baby.

00:35:13You must tell her.

00:35:14Perhaps she'd share Olga's room for a bit.

00:35:19Andrusia, why don't you say anything?

00:35:22I'm just daydreaming.

00:35:24There's nothing to say anyway.

00:35:30Well...

00:35:32What was it I was going to tell you about?

00:35:35Oh yes.

00:35:36Ferrapont from the council office is waiting to see you about something.

00:35:38Tell him to come in.

00:35:56Hello chap.

00:35:57What do you want to see me about?

00:35:58The chairman has sent you the register.

00:36:01And a letter or something.

00:36:04Here it is.

00:36:08Yes, that's all right.

00:36:09Incidentally, why have you come so late?

00:36:10It's gone eight already.

00:36:12What's that?

00:36:12I said you're late.

00:36:13It's gone eight already.

00:36:14That's right.

00:36:15It was still daylight when I came first, but they wouldn't let me see you.

00:36:20The master is engaged, they said.

00:36:22Well, if you're engaged, you're engaged.

00:36:25I'm not in a hurry.

00:36:27What's that?

00:36:28Nothing.

00:36:31Ah, tomorrow's Friday.

00:36:35There's no meeting.

00:36:38I'll go to the office just the same, do some work.

00:36:42I'm so bored at home.

00:36:45Today I picked up this book just out of boredom because I hadn't anything to do.

00:36:49It's a copy of some lectures I attended at the university.

00:36:55Good heavens, just think of it.

00:36:57I'm secretary of the local council now.

00:37:01Proterpopova's chairman.

00:37:02The most I can ever hope for is to become a member of the council myself.

00:37:07I would dream every night that I'm a professor in the Moscow University, a famous academician.

00:37:12The pride of all Russia.

00:37:14I'm sorry, I can't tell you.

00:37:16I don't hear very well.

00:37:18Well, if you could hear properly, I wouldn't be talking to you like this.

00:37:22I've got to talk to somebody.

00:37:25Well, my wife doesn't seem to understand me.

00:37:27As for my sisters, I'm afraid of them.

00:37:29For some reason or other, I'm afraid of them laughing at me.

00:37:33I don't drink.

00:37:34I loathe taverns.

00:37:36Oh, my word, how I'd enjoy an hour or so at Tiesto's.

00:37:40Oh, the great Moscow restaurant.

00:37:42Yes, my dear friend, I would indeed.

00:37:43The other day at the office, a contractor was telling me about some businessmen who were eating pancakes in Moscow.

00:37:51One of them ate 40 pancakes and died.

00:37:54It was either 40 or 50.

00:37:57I can't remember exactly.

00:38:01You can sit in a huge restaurant in Moscow.

00:38:03You know no one.

00:38:04No one knows you.

00:38:06Somehow you don't feel you don't belong there.

00:38:09But as here, you know everyone.

00:38:11Everyone knows you.

00:38:13You don't belong at all.

00:38:14What's that?

00:38:15Nothing.

00:38:16It was the same man that told me.

00:38:19Of course, he may have been lying.

00:38:21He said there's an enormous rope stretched right across Moscow.

00:38:26Whatever for?

00:38:28I'm sorry, I can't tell you, but that's what he said.

00:38:33That's nonsense.

00:38:36Have you ever been to Moscow?

00:38:39No, it was not God's wish.

00:38:43I don't know.

00:38:45I don't know.

00:38:48For instance, after Father died, for a long time we couldn't get accustomed to the idea that he hadn't any

00:38:56orderlies to wait on us.

00:38:58But, uh, habit apart, I think it's quite right what I'm saying.

00:39:03I don't know about other places.

00:39:06But in this town, certainly, the military do seem to be the nicest and most generous and best man of

00:39:12people.

00:39:14I'm thirsty.

00:39:16I could do with a glass of tea.

00:39:18They'll bring it in presently.

00:39:20You see, they married me off when I was 18.

00:39:24I was afraid of my husband because he was a schoolmaster.

00:39:28And I'd only just left school myself.

00:39:31He seemed very learned then, very clever and important.

00:39:35Now it's quite different, unfortunately.

00:39:38Yes.

00:39:40I see.

00:39:41I don't say anything against my husband.

00:39:43I'm used to him now.

00:39:45But there are such a lot of vulgar people among the civilians.

00:39:48Vulgarity upsets me. It makes me feel insulted.

00:39:51I actually suffer when I meet someone who lacks refinement.

00:39:55When I'm with the other teachers, my husband's friends, I just suffer.

00:39:59Yes, of course.

00:40:02Oh, we, Russians, are capable of such elevated thought.

00:40:09Why do we have such low ideals in practical life?

00:40:12Why is it?

00:40:13Why?

00:40:16Why?

00:40:17Why?

00:40:20You're sad tonight, aren't you?

00:40:23Perhaps.

00:40:24I didn't have any dinner.

00:40:30I haven't had anything to eat since morning.

00:40:38Hello.

00:40:39One of my daughters is a bit off colour.

00:40:42Whenever the children are ill, I get worried.

00:40:44I feel like I'd be conscience-stricken at having given them a mother like theirs.

00:40:48Oh, you could only see her this morning.

00:40:51We started quarrelling at seven o'clock and at nine I just walked out of the house and slammed the

00:40:54door.

00:40:56I never talk about these things in the ordinary way.

00:41:00It's strange.

00:41:01You're the only person I feel I'd dare complain to.

00:41:07No, don't be angry with me.

00:41:11I'm nobody.

00:41:13Nobody but you.

00:41:18What a noise the wind's making in the stove.

00:41:23Just before father died, the wind howled in the chimney just like that.

00:41:26Are you superstitious?

00:41:28Yes.

00:41:29Strange.

00:41:37You really are a wonderful creature.

00:41:40A marvellous creature.

00:41:43Wonderful, marvellous.

00:41:45It's quite dark here.

00:41:47I can see your eyes shining.

00:41:50There's more light over here.

00:42:06I love you.

00:42:09I love you.

00:42:12I love you.

00:42:15I love your eyes.

00:42:16Yes.

00:42:18I love your movements.

00:42:20I dream about them.

00:42:23You're a wonderful, marvellous being.

00:42:26When you talk to me like that somehow I can't hold laughing.

00:42:30Although I'm afraid at the same time.

00:42:32Don't say it again, please.

00:42:34When they're gone, I don't mind.

00:42:37I don't mind.

00:42:46There's someone coming.

00:42:47Let's talk about something else.

00:42:49Oh, it's you.

00:42:51How are you?

00:42:53Home at last.

00:43:02A woman came into the post office just before I left.

00:43:05She, uh, she wanted to send a wire to her brother in Saraton to tell him her son had just

00:43:12died.

00:43:13She couldn't remember the address.

00:43:16So we had to send the wire without an address just to Saraton.

00:43:21She was crying.

00:43:23I was rude to her for no reason at all.

00:43:27So stupid of me.

00:43:32We're having the carnival crowd today, aren't we?

00:43:36Yes.

00:43:37A nice it is to rest.

00:43:38I'm so tired.

00:43:40Yeah, when you come back from work you look so young, so pathetic somehow.

00:43:44So tired.

00:43:46No, I don't like working at the post office.

00:43:49I must look for another job.

00:43:50This one doesn't suit me.

00:43:52Hasn't got what I always long for and dreamt about.

00:43:54It's the sort of job you do without inspiration, without even thinking.

00:44:00To the doctor.

00:44:01Would you answer him?

00:44:03I'm tired.

00:44:10He'll be up in a moment.

00:44:14We must do something about all this.

00:44:16Andre and the doctor went to the club last night and lost again at cards.

00:44:20They say Andre lost 200 rubles.

00:44:23What are we to do about it?

00:44:25Lost a fortnight ago.

00:44:26He lost in December too.

00:44:28I wish to goodness he'd lose everything we've got and soon

00:44:30and then perhaps we'd move out of this place.

00:44:35I dream of Moscow every night.

00:44:38Sometimes I feel as if I were going mad.

00:44:41We're going to Moscow in June.

00:44:43February, March.

00:44:45Nearly half a year.

00:44:46We must take care that Natasha doesn't get to know about him losing at cards.

00:44:51I don't think she cares.

00:44:52I don't think she cares.

00:45:05There he is.

00:45:08Has he paid his rent yet?

00:45:10No.

00:45:11Not a penny for the last eight months.

00:45:13I suppose he's forgotten.

00:45:18How solemn he looks sitting there.

00:45:25Why don't you say something, Alexander Ignatievich?

00:45:29I don't know.

00:45:30I'm just longing for some tea.

00:45:33I give my life for a glass of tea.

00:45:37Good.

00:45:39I haven't had anything to eat since morning.

00:45:42You're in a cigar, no?

00:45:44What is it?

00:45:45Please come here.

00:45:47When is he seen?

00:45:50I can't do that.

00:46:11Oh, well.

00:46:14Since we can't have any tea, let's do a bit of philosophising.

00:46:17Yes.

00:46:20Yes, let's.

00:46:26What about?

00:46:29What about?

00:46:32Well, let's try to imagine what life will be like after we're dead, saying two or three hundred years.

00:46:36After we're dead.

00:46:37All right, then.

00:46:40After we're dead, people will fly about in balloons.

00:46:43Cutter their coats will be different.

00:46:46The sixth sense will be discovered, and possibly even developed for all I know.

00:46:51I believe that life itself will remain the same.

00:46:54It will still be difficult, and full of mystery, and full of happiness.

00:47:00In a thousand years' time, people will still be sighing and complaining how hard this business of living is.

00:47:05They will still be afraid of death, and unwilling to die just as they are now.

00:47:10Why are you laughing?

00:47:12I don't know.

00:47:13I've been laughing all day today.

00:47:17I went to the same cadet school as you did, but I never went on to the military academy.

00:47:21I read a great deal, of course, but I never know what books I ought to choose, and probably I

00:47:25read a lot of stuff that's not worth anything.

00:47:28All the same, I think I know one thing that's not only true but also most important.

00:47:34There's not going to be any happiness for our own generation.

00:47:37We've just got to work and work.

00:47:40All the happiness is reserved for our descendants.

00:47:44Our remote descendants.

00:47:47Here we go.

00:47:49Ah.

00:47:53Ah.

00:47:55Do not say in accents sweet farewell, but tenderly pronounce a parting greeting, and the rest of the night.

00:48:08Anyway, if I'm not going to be happy, then at least my children's children will be.

00:48:14But what if I am happy?

00:48:16You're not.

00:48:17We don't understand one another.

00:48:19That's obvious.

00:48:20How can I convince you?

00:48:23Oh, show her finger to her and she'll laugh.

00:48:26Life doesn't change.

00:48:28It always goes on the same.

00:48:30Follows its own laws.

00:48:31Think of the birds that migrate in the autumn.

00:48:33The cranes, for instance, they just fly on and on.

00:48:36And they'll go on flying no matter how many philosophers happen to be flying with them.

00:48:41Isn't there some meaning?

00:48:43Meaning?

00:48:52What's the meaning of that?

00:48:59I think a human being has got to have some faith.

00:49:05Or else he's got to seek faith.

00:49:07Otherwise his life will be empty.

00:49:10Empty.

00:49:11How can you live and not know why the cranes fly?

00:49:14Why children are born?

00:49:14Why the stars shine in the sky?

00:49:18You must either know why you live or else nothing matters.

00:49:22Everything's just wild grass.

00:49:25All the same.

00:49:27I'm sorry my youth, sir.

00:49:29It's a bore to be alive in this world, friends.

00:49:32That's what Gogol says.

00:49:34Well, I've thrown him my hand.

00:49:35I've given him my resignation.

00:49:36Did you know, Marsha?

00:49:37Yes.

00:49:37I don't see any good in it either.

00:49:39I don't like civilians.

00:49:41Never mind.

00:49:42What sort of a soldier do I make anyway?

00:49:43I'm not even good looking.

00:49:44But what does it matter?

00:49:45I shall work.

00:49:46I'd like to do such a hard day's work that when I came home in the evening,

00:49:50I'd fall on my bed exhausted and go to sleep a while.

00:49:52I shall think that working men sleep well at night.

00:50:00I've got you some colored crayons of Zhikovs in Moscow Street.

00:50:03And this little pen knife too.

00:50:05You treat me as if I were a child.

00:50:07I wish you'd remember I'm grown up now.

00:50:10But they're very nice.

00:50:11Doctor, how old are you?

00:50:14I?

00:50:1632.

00:50:19I'll show you another kind of patience.

00:50:35What a wind though.

00:50:37Yes.

00:50:38I'm tired of the winter.

00:50:40I've almost forgotten what summer's like.

00:50:43He's coming up.

00:50:44We will get to Moscow.

00:50:45No, he doesn't.

00:50:46The two must go on the eight.

00:50:47That means you won't go to Moscow.

00:50:50Summer can.

00:50:51Smallpox is raging.

00:50:53Masha, the tea's ready, dear.

00:50:57Will you please come to the table, Your Excellency?

00:50:59I'm sorry I can't remember your name.

00:51:01Bring it here, Nanny.

00:51:02I'm not going in there.

00:51:03Nanny!

00:51:04Coming.

00:51:05Coming, coming, coming.

00:51:07You know even tiny babies understand what we say perfectly well.

00:51:11Good morning, Bobby, I said to him only today.

00:51:14Good morning, my precious.

00:51:16And then he loved him in such a special sort of way.

00:51:19You may say that's only a mother's imagination, but it isn't.

00:51:22I do assure you.

00:51:23No, no.

00:51:24He really is an extraordinary child.

00:51:27If that child were mine, I'd cook him up in a frying pan and eat him.

00:51:37What a rude, ill-mannered person.

00:51:40Happy people don't notice where there's summer or winter.

00:51:44I think I'd be indifferent to the weather if I were living in Moscow.

00:51:48You won't notice Moscow once you live there again.

00:51:51We're never happy.

00:51:52We can't be.

00:51:54We only long for happiness.

00:51:57I say, where are all the chocolates?

00:51:59Here?

00:52:00Sally only's eating them.

00:52:01For all of them?

00:52:02Here.

00:52:06Here's a letter for you, sir.

00:52:08For me?

00:52:10It's from my daughter.

00:52:20Yes, of course.

00:52:23Forgive me, Marsha.

00:52:24I'll just go away quietly.

00:52:25I won't have any tea.

00:52:30Same thing, is it?

00:52:33The secret.

00:52:36My wife's tried to poison herself.

00:52:38I must go.

00:52:40I'll just get away.

00:52:41I'll just get away.

00:52:41Quietly without them seeing me.

00:52:43It's always this most fretfully unpleasant, my dear woman.

00:52:47Sweet girl.

00:52:49I'll just go out quietly.

00:53:01Where's he off to?

00:53:03And I've just brought him some tea.

00:53:06What an odd fellow.

00:53:07Why don't you leave me alone?

00:53:09Why do you keep pestering me?

00:53:10Can't you leave me in peace?

00:53:11I'm sick and tired of you, silly old woman.

00:53:13Why, I didn't mean to offend you, dear.

00:53:16I'm peace, sir.

00:53:17Sitting there in his...

00:53:19Do let me sit down somewhere.

00:53:21You take up the whole table with your cards.

00:53:23Why don't you get on with your tea?

00:53:24Marsha, you're so bad tempered.

00:53:26My bad tempered.

00:53:27Don't talk to me.

00:53:29Don't touch me.

00:53:30Oh, don't touch her.

00:53:31Take care not to touch her.

00:53:34Pass me.

00:53:35Is that the cognac?

00:53:36Where's the colonel?

00:53:41His wife's done something peculiar again.

00:53:43Thanks.

00:53:57Always sit alone brooding over something or other.

00:54:03Well, let's make it up.

00:54:05Let's have a cognac together.

00:54:13Well, I suppose I shall have to play the piano all night tonight.

00:54:15A lot of rubbishy tunes.

00:54:17Never mind.

00:54:19Why do you say let's make it up we haven't quarrelled?

00:54:22Well, you always give me the feeling there's something wrong between us.

00:54:26You're a strange character.

00:54:27There's no doubt about it.

00:54:28I am strange, but who's not so?

00:54:30Don't be angry, Alicot.

00:54:34What's a liquor got to do with it?

00:54:39When I'm alone with people I'm all right, but when I'm in company I get depressed and shy and talk

00:54:44all sorts of nonsense.

00:54:46Well, you often make me angry because you keep pestering me.

00:54:50All the same I like you for some reason or other.

00:54:52Anyway, I'm gonna get drunk tonight, whatever happens.

00:54:54Let's have another drink.

00:54:56Yes, let's.

00:55:00It's not that I have anything personal against you, Baron.

00:55:04But my temperament's rather like Leomontov's.

00:55:09I've even been told that I look a little like Leomontov.

00:55:15I've given him my resignation.

00:55:17Finished!

00:55:20I've been considering it for five years and I've made up my mind at last I'm going to work.

00:55:25What they gave me was the genuine Caucasian stuff.

00:55:28Onion soup followed by Chirachuma.

00:55:31It's a meat dish, you know.

00:55:33Chirachuma isn't a meat dish at all.

00:55:35It's a kind of plant, something like an onion.

00:55:37My dear boy, Chirachuma is not an onion.

00:55:40It is a sort of roast mutton.

00:55:42I tell you that Chirachuma is a kind of onion.

00:55:44Oh, do stop it, friends.

00:55:45Please, stop it.

00:55:46Where is the carnival crowd coming along?

00:55:49They're supposed to be here at nine.

00:55:50That means any minute now.

00:55:52Oh, my lovely port!

00:55:53My new, my lovely port!

00:55:55My new, my lovely port!

00:55:56My new, my lovely port!

00:55:57Well, let's have another drink.

00:56:01Today we'll take it.

00:56:02And, Rucha, let's drink to eternal friendship!

00:56:06I'll come with you when you go back to Moscow University.

00:56:08which university there are two universities in Moscow there's only one

00:56:12university there I tell you there are two there are two universities in Moscow

00:56:19there are two universities in Moscow one old and one new but if you don't want

00:56:25to listen to what I have to say if my conversation irritates you I can keep

00:56:29silent I can in fact go to another room

00:56:34come on my friends let's get started I'll play for you what a funny creature

00:56:38that Scalioni is

00:57:24the carnival part is not coming see my dear Natasha says that Bobby isn't well I

00:57:31don't know and I don't care

00:57:37we'll keep our end up if they say we must go out out we must go it's not Bobby who's

00:57:43not well it's her there

00:57:50what's a pity I've been hoping to

00:57:52spend the evening here but of course if the child's not well I'll bring him some

00:57:56toys tomorrow I never found time to get married somehow partly because my own

00:58:11life is flashed by like lightning partly because I was always in love with your

00:58:16mother who is married yeah one should never marry a marriage is so boring it may be but what about

00:58:26loneliness you may philosophize as much as you like my dear boy but loneliness is a dreadful thing

00:58:36really doesn't matter a damn of course come on let's go what's the hurry that's plenty of time

00:58:43oh my wife might try to stop me

00:58:48I won't play tonight I'll just sit and watch don't feel very well tell me if I

00:58:53will manage what should I do for breathlessness

00:58:56well ask me my dear boy I can't remember I simply don't know

00:59:02what is it

00:59:03the carnival party

00:59:06tell them there's no one at home

00:59:08I apologize to them

00:59:28where is everyone

00:59:31gone home

00:59:33how strange

00:59:35and you're here alone

00:59:38yes

00:59:40hello

00:59:44good night

00:59:47I know that I behaved tactlessly just now but I lost control of myself

00:59:51but you're different from the others

00:59:53you're pure

00:59:55you're the only person who can see where the truth lies

00:59:58you're the only person in the world who can understand me

01:00:01I love you

01:00:02I love you with a deep and infinite love

01:00:05do please go away good night

01:00:06I can't live without you

01:00:07oh what a delight it is just to look at you

01:00:10oh my happiness

01:00:13the beautiful marvellous entrancing eyes

01:00:15eyes like no other woman's that I've ever seen

01:00:18stop it Salioni

01:00:19I've never spoken to you of my love before

01:00:22it makes me feel as if I were living on a different planet

01:00:26never mind

01:00:28I can't force you to love me obviously

01:00:31but I don't intend to have any rivals

01:00:33successful rivals I mean

01:00:36no

01:00:37no

01:00:38I swear to you by everything that I hold sacred

01:00:42if there is anyone else

01:00:43I will kill him

01:00:45oh how wonderful you are

01:00:52forgive me Salioni I didn't know you were here

01:00:54I'm afraid I'm not properly dressed

01:00:57I don't care

01:01:00goodbye

01:01:11you must be tired my poor dear girl

01:01:13you ought to go to bed earlier

01:01:17is Bob Eake asleep?

01:01:19yes he's asleep

01:01:21but he's not sleeping peacefully

01:01:23by the way my dear I've been meaning to speak to you for some time

01:01:25but there's always been something

01:01:27you see I think that Bob Eake's nursery is so cold and damp

01:01:31and your room is just ideal for a baby

01:01:33darling do you think you could go into Olga's room?

01:01:36where to?

01:01:38well you could share with Olya for the time being and Bob Eake can have your room

01:01:42oh he's such a darling

01:01:44this morning I said to him Bob Eake you're my very own

01:01:47my very own and he just gazed at me with his dear little eyes

01:01:51hmm

01:01:53well that must be Olga how late she is

01:02:06Proto Popov

01:02:09oh what a funny fellow

01:02:12Proto Popov's come to ask me to go for a drive with him in a Troika

01:02:20aren't these men strange creatures

01:02:23shall I go?

01:02:26just for a quarter of an hour?

01:02:29tell him I'll be down in a minute

01:02:33there's the bell again

01:02:35oh I suppose it's Olga

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