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[Deemer]

SORIN: Where are they going?

IRINA: I think Medvedenko is getting ready to pop the question.

SORIN: What question is that?

IRINA: He's in love with Masha.

SORIN: A wedding at the estate! What a lovely idea.

IRINA: I don't think she'll have him.

SORIN: What a pitty.

TRIGORIN: I think Masha has an eye for your son.

IRINA: Who never gives her the time of day. He can't see anyone but Nina.

SORIN: Maybe Kostya and Nina will marry on the estate.

IRINA: I hope not.

TRIGORIN: Why?

IRINA: He's too unsettled to marry anyone. He's a young man floundering around to find himself.

SORIN: You should send him abroad.

IRINA: I'm not made out of money. These are delicious, don't you think? I'm going to have another.

(She helps herself to another small cake and speaks to the audience:)

IRINA: Which is where we have our first intermission.

(All actors leave to the dressing rooms.)

(End of Act I)

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