[S-III-2]

[Deemer]

(Treplev is surprised to find Masha in the study.)

TREPLEV: Must you drink so much?

MASHA: Who are you to criticize me? You are an example of such wonderful behavior?

TREPLEV: I'm sorry. I have no right to criticize you at all.

MASHA: To do such a thing for a woman who doesn't care for you at all. Why?

TREPLEV: You wouldn't understand. I'm not sure I do myself.

MASHA: Kostya, why can't you love me?

TREPLEV: Love isn't the result of some equation, like an addition problem.

MASHA: I love you so much!

TREPLEV: Masha, please. Don't do this to yourself.

MASHA: You know what you're doing? You're forcing me to marry someone else.

TREPLEV: Maybe someone else can make you happy.

MASHA: Only you can make me happy!

TREPLEV: You get maudlin when you drink.

MASHA: I can't help it.

TREPLEV: You have to come to grips.

MASHA: You're a fine one to talk.

TREPLEV: Masha, I didn't want to kill myself. I truly didn't. It wasn't an accident exactly - I mean, I know what I was doing, I remember picking up the gun and pulling the trigger - but if you want to do something like that, you succeed. Obviously it was just a charade, I was play-acting.

MASHA: You wanted to make her feel sorry for you.

TREPLEV: I suppose I did.

MASHA: And did you?

TREPLEV: No. It made things worse, not better.

(Medvedenko has entered, listening, and they notice him now. Masha quickly leaves.)

[follow her]

[stay here]