LÍZA _enters._

LÍZA. [_Quietly to_ LEONÍD] Nádya sent me to say that we'll come to the
garden.

LEONÍD. Give her a kiss from me.

GAVRÍLOVNA. God give you health, master, for taking our part. Any wretch
can insult us; but there's no one to take our part. You'll get a rich
reward for that in the next world.

LEONÍD. I'm always ready to help you. [_He goes out to the right, with a
caper._

GAVRÍLOVNA. Thanks, my dear! [_She goes out with_ LÍZA, _to the left_.



SCENE VII

VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA _and_ POTÁPYCH


VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Why don't you insult me? They all insult me, why
don't you? You heard how she herself wanted to flog me; "I'll have them do
it with brooms," she said. May her words choke her!

POTÁPYCH. What, I!.... I insult anybody! But as to the gentlefolk
there ... I don't know, but perhaps they have to.