nikolai lvovich, please go away, really now. i'm going. fyodor, are you asleep? why don't you go home? my darling masha, oh my sweet, precious masha. she's tired freddy, let her rest a while. yes, i'll go in a minute. my dear wife, my own good wife, if only you know how much i love you, only you. -- yes. we really shouldn't do messing work. i married you seven years ago and it seemed as if it were only yesterday. my dear, well, you are amazing. oh, i am so happy, happy, happy. and i'm so bored, bored, bored. i can't get it out of my head. it's simply disgusting. it's like having a nail driven in your head. no, i can't keep quiet any longer. it's about andrei. he has actually mortgaged this house to a bank and his wife's got hold of all the money and yet this house doesn't belong to him. it belongs to all four of us. surely he must realize that if he has any honesty. masha, why bring this up? why we talk about it now? andrei owes money all around, let him alone. anyway, it's disgusting. well, we aren't poor. i have my job. i teach at the county school. i give less

please don't talk to me of love nikolai lvovich. oh, i long so passionately for life. i long to work and strive so much and all this longing is somehow mingled with my love for you irina and just because you happen to be beautiful life appears beautiful to me. what are you thinking about? well, you say that life is beautiful, maybe it is. but what if it only seems to be beautiful. well, our lives, i mean, the lives of us three sisters haven't been beautiful up until now, life has been stifling us like weeds in a garden. irina. i'm afraid i'm crying. so unnecessary. we must work, work. the reason we feel depressed and take such a gloomy view of life is that we've never known what it is to make a real effort. we're the children of parents who despised work. they've gone into lunch already, i'm late. hair seems to be all right. my dear irina sergeyevna, congratulations. you've got such a lot of visitors. i feel quite shy. oh... how do you do baron? ah, there you are natalia ivavovna, how are you my dear? congratulations. you've got such a lot of visitors. i feel dreadfull