VARVARA.
Timid, nonsense! Glasha will be with us.

KATERINA.
Still one feels nervous, somehow! But perhaps I will.

VARVARA.
I wouldn't have asked you, only mamma wouldn't let me alone, and I must.

KATERINA (_looking at her_).
What for?

VARVARA.(_laughing_).
We'll tell our fortunes together there.

KATERINA.
You must be joking.

VARVARA.
To be sure, I am joking; did you think I meant it?

[_Silence_.

KATERINA.
Where can Tihon be?

VARVARA.
Why, do you want him?