[II-6]

[Chekhov]

DORN: People are so tiresome. Your husband should have been fired years ago, but in the end everyone will apologize to him, wait and see.

POLINA: He put the carriage horses in the field. Every day it's something else - he just makes me sick. Look how I'm trembling. Yevgeny, darling, take me away with you. We're not getting any younger. Let's live the rest of our lives without hiding and lying.

DORN: I'm 55 - I can't change now.

POLINA: You won't change because you want other women in your life as well. All of us can't live with you. I think you're already getting tired of me.

(Nina appears outside the house, picking flowers.)

DORN: I'm not tired of you.

POLINA: I admit I'm jealous. A doctor can't avoid women.

(Nina approaches.)

[continue]