Page:Five Russian plays and one Ukrainian.pdf/130

108 : Oh! let me be! Give me poetry, ecstasy! Fan me! Fan me!

(to Dimba): We’ll have another, eh? I can drink any time. The chief thing, Dimba, is not to forget one’s affairs. Drink, and understand your affairs! And as for drinking, why not drink ? Drinking’s allowed; your health! (Drinks.) Tell me, have you got tigers in Greece?


 * Yes.


 * And lions?


 * Yes, lions too. In Russia there is nothing, but in Greece everything. My father's there and my uncle and my brothers, and here nothing.


 * But have you got whales in Greece?


 * We've everything there.

(to her husband): Why all this random drinking and eating? It’s time we all sat down. Don’t stick a fork in the lobster! It’s for the general. Perhaps he’ll come after all.


 * Have you got lobsters in Greece?


 * Yes, we've everything there.


 * I’m just thinking—what atmosphere in Greece!


 * And probably a lot of trickery. Greeks