MÁSHA. You ought to be ashamed of yourself! What's that you're saying?
RAZLYULYÁYEV. Why such airs! I say, fall in love with me, somebody--yes--for my simplicity.
LÍZA. People don't talk like that to girls. You ought to wait till they do fall in love with you.
RAZLYULYÁYEV. Yes, much I'll get from you by waiting! [_Dances_
LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA. [_Looking at_ MÍTYA] It may be somebody loves somebody and won't tell! He must guess himself.
LÍZA. How can any girl in the world say that!
ANNA IVÁNOVNA. [_Goes up to them and looks now at_ LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA _and now at_ MÍTYA _and sings_:
"Already it is seen If somebody loves somebody-- Opposite the beloved one she seats herself Heavily sighing."
RAZLYULYÁYEV. Stay, girls, I'll sing you a song.
ANNA IVÁNOVNA. Don't you know anything worse than that!
LÍZA. We might think you were making fun of us.
RAZLYULYÁYEV. If this isn't good enough I'll sing you another, for I'm a jolly fellow. [_Sings_.
"Beat! Beat! upon the board. Moscow! Moscow! that's the word. Moscow's got it in his head That Kolomna he will wed. Tula laughs with all his heart. But with the dowry will not part. Buckwheat is tuppence. It's twenty for oats. Millet is sixpence and barley three groats. [_Turns towards the girls_. If only oats would but come down! It's costly carting 'em to town."
ANNA IVÁNOVNA. What are you interrupting for! Just guess this riddle. What's this: round--but not a girl; with a tail--but not a mouse?[1]
ANNA IVÁNOVNA. Indeed it is!--You just think it over! Now, girls, come along! [_The girls rise and get ready to go_] Come along, boys!
MÍTYA. But I'll come later. I'll put things to rights here first.
ANNA IVÁNOVNA. [_Sings while they are getting ready_]
"Our maids last night, Our pretties last night, They brewed us a brew of the beer last night. And there came to our maids, And there came to our pretties A guest, a guest whom they didn't invite."
ANNA IVÁNOVNA _lets them all pass through the door, except_ LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA; _she shuts the door and does not allow her to pass_.
LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA. [_At the door_] Stop, don't be silly! [_Through the door the girls are heard laughing_] They won't let me out! Oh, what girls! [_Walks away from the door_] They're always up to something.
