leading me, and I follow him, I follow.

VARVARA.
Well?

KATERINA.
But what things I am saying to you, a young girl like you.

VARVARA (_looking about her_).
You can tell me! I'm worse than you.

KATERINA.
Oh what am I to tell you? I'm ashamed.

VARVARA.
You've no need! Tell away.

KATERINA.
I am stifling, stifling at home, I should like to run away. And the fancy
comes to me that if I were my own mistress, I would float down the Volga
now, in a boat, to the singing of songs, or I would drive right away
clasped close....

VARVARA.
But not with your husband.

KATERINA.
How do you know that?

VARVARA.