[III-4]

[Chekhov]

(Irina and Sorin enter. Sorin is in full civil bureaucrat uniform.)

IRINA: With your rheumatism, Pyotr, you'd best stay at home and not go out visiting so much. (To Trigorin:) Who just left? Nina?

TRIGORIN: Yes.

IRINA: Pardon us for interrupting. (She sits down.) I finished packing. I'm exhausted.

TRIGORIN: (reading the inscription on the medallion:) Days and Nights, page 121, lines 11 and 12 . . . (quietly to himself) ... lines 11 and 12 ... (to Irina) Where are my books?

IRINA: In the corner bookcase of Pyotr's study.

TRIGORIN: (to himself) Page 121 . . .

(He exits.)

[follow Trigorin]

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