I don‘tknow what she‘ll be like now.... She‘s agood sort an easy, simple person. Iremember when I was a boy of fifteen,my father, who is dead
LOPAKHIN [Listens] No.... They‘vegot to collect their luggage and so on....[Pause] Lubov Andreyevna has beenliving abroad for five years;
and the temptingthought of a swift, fleeting love affair,a romance with an unknown woman,whose name he did not know,suddenly took possession of him.
who would themselves have been gladto sin if they had been able; but whenthe lady sat down at the next tablethree paces from him, he rememberedthese tales of easy conquests, of tripsto the mountains
"Time goes fast, and yet it is so dullhere!" she said, not looking at him.
