SCENE VI
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LÍZA, NÁDYA, and LEONÍD
LÍZA. What have you done, what have you done!…
NÁDYA. [Not listening to her, softly to LEONÍD] You will come to-morrow?
LEONÍD. I will.
LÍZA. What's the matter, don't you hear?
NÁDYA. If I can't come, I'll send a note somehow or other.
LEONÍD. Good!
NÁDYA. Well, good-by. [They kiss.
LÍZA. [Loudly] Nádya!
NÁDYA. [Goes up to LÍZA. LEONÍD sits down upon the bench] What's the matter?
LÍZA. Vasilísa Peregrínovna saw you rowing on the pond.
NÁDYA. Well, deuce take her!
LÍZA. My dear girl, don't carry your head too high!
LEONÍD. Nádya! [NÁDYA goes to him] Oh, Nádya, what a vile, good-for-nothing fellow I am!
NÁDYA. What do you mean?
LEONÍD. Little Nádya! [He whispers in her ear.
NÁDYA. [Shakes her head] Oh, my precious darling, why did that come into your head? I'm not sorry for this, but you are. How kind you are! Now, good-by! It's high time. I shouldn't leave you, but I can't help it; I'm not my own mistress.
LEONÍD. Good-by, then!
Slowly, as if unwillingly, they separate. NÁDYA returns, overtakes LEONÍD and gazes into his eyes.
NÁDYA. Do you love me?
LEONÍD. I do love you, indeed I do!
[They kiss and go out in different directions.
IV
Same room as in second picture