yours which I used to admire are not worth one copper kopeck. You
are a hoax!

SEREBRAKOFF. Can't any one make him stop? I am going!

HELENA. Ivan, I command you to stop this instant! Do you hear me?

VOITSKI. I refuse! [SEREBRAKOFF tries to get out of the room, but
VOITSKI bars the door] Wait! I have not done yet! You have
wrecked my life. I have never lived. My best years have gone for
nothing, have been ruined, thanks to you. You are my most bitter
enemy!

TELEGIN. I can't stand it; I can't stand it. I am going. [He goes
out in great excitement.]

SEREBRAKOFF. But what do you want? What earthly right have you to
use such language to me? Ruination! If this estate is yours, then
take it, and let me be ruined!

HELENA. I am going away out of this hell this minute. [Shrieks]
This is too much!

VOITSKI. My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and
strong. If I had lived a normal life I might have become another
Schopenhauer or Dostoieffski. I am losing my head! I am going
crazy! Mother, I am in despair! Oh, mother!

MME. VOITSKAYA. [Sternly] Listen, Alexander!