[L-II-5]

[Deemer]

(Irina and Ilya are gone.)

SORIN: So maybe we'll have peace and quiet around here again.

MED.: You handled that very nicely. Didn't he, Masha?

MASHA: Better than I would have.

POLINA: He would die if he lost this job.

SORIN: Proud people are like horses that haven't been broken in yet - you have to give them a lot of rope.

MASHA: Father is disagreeable just to hear himself talk.

MED.: I think he had a legitimate point.

MASHA: You would.

MED.: It's not easy planning all the work around here.

SORIN: That's true enough, and your father does a good job most of the time, Masha. If that wasn't true, I would've fired him a long time ago.

MASHA: He's always complaining. It drives me crazy.

SORIN: For some men, complaining is in their nature.

MASHA: It's hard to hear all day long.

SORIN: Let it go in one ear and out the other. Polina, since you're still employed, maybe we can have lunch?

POLINA: Right away.

SORIN: Nothing like a good argument to whet the appetite! (He turns to the audience.) Now we have an intermission.

(All actors move off.)

(End of Act II)

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