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SAVVA
If you don't go at once, I'll throw you out of the window. Well?
SPERANSKY
Excuse me, I never had the faintest idea--I was here with Mr. Anthony Tropinin. I am going instantly. Where is my hat? I put it here somewhere--
SAVVA
There's your hat. _(Throws it to him)_
LIPA _(feebly)_
Stay here awhile longer, Mr. Speransky. Sit down.
SPERANSKY
No, it's late. I must go to bed. Good night, Miss Olympiada. Good night, Mr. Tropinin. Your brother is asleep already, I believe. You ought to take him to bed. I'm going, I'm going. _(Exit)_
SAVVA _(speaking in a quiet, calm tone; his movements are heavy and slow, as if his body had suddenly stiffened)_ You know it?
LIPA
I do.
SAVVA
You know all?
LIPA
All.
SAVVA
Did the monk tell you?
LIPA
He did.
SAVVA
Well?
LIPA _(drawing back a little, and raising her hand for protection)_-Well, nothing will happen. There'll be no blowing up. You understand, Savva, there'll be no explosion.
_[Pause. Footsteps are heard in the street, and indistinct talking.
Savva turns around. Stooping more than usually, he takes a turn around the room with peculiar slowness._
SAVVA
Well?
LIPA
Then you had better believe me, brother. Believe me.
SAVVA
Yes?
LIPA
Why that was--I don't know what it was--it was a piece of madness.
Think it over.
SAVVA
Is it really true?
LIPA
Yes, it's true. It's all over. You can't help it any more. There is nothing for you to do.
SAVVA
Tell me how it happened. _(Sits down deliberately, his eyes fixed on Lipa)_
LIPA
I guessed a little something long ago--that day when you spoke to me--only I didn't know exactly what it was. And I saw the little machine too. I have another key to the trunk.
SAVVA
Evidently you have been cut out for a spy. Go on!
LIPA
I am not afraid of insults.
SAVVA
Never mind, never mind--go on.
LIPA
Then I saw that you had frequent talks with that fellow--Kondraty.
Yesterday I looked in the trunk again, and the machine wasn't there.
