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NASTÁSIA. Come, Másha dearest! Come, my own! Don't sulk. You've done
wrong, and now come along.
IVÁN. Now then, you've talked enough! March! [Seizes her hand] Excuse
us, sir! [Exit the three gipsies].
Enter Prince Abrézkov.
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. Excuse me. I have been an unwilling witness of an
unpleasant scene....
FÉDYA. Whom have I the honour?... [Recognises the Prince] Ah, Prince
Abrézkov! [They shake hands].
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. An unwilling witness of an unpleasant scene. I should
have been glad not to hear, but having overheard it, I consider it my
duty to tell you so. I was directed here, and had to wait at the door
for those people to come out--more particularly as their very loud
voices rendered my knocking inaudible.
FÉDYA. Yes, yes--please take a seat. Thank you for telling me: it gives
me the right to explain that scene to you. I don't mind what you may
think of me, but I should like to tell you that the reproaches you heard
addressed to that girl, that gipsy singer, were unjust. That girl is as
morally pure as a dove; and my relations with her are those of a friend.
There may be a tinge of romance in them, but it does not destroy the
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