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, a village priest.

, an actress.

, a theological student.

, his mother, the priest’s sister.

, a physician.

Scene: A small Bohemian parsonage near the mountains.

''Courtyard of a country parsonage. Summer afternoon.''

Matoush (entering from the outside with his sister).—Well, God willing, by to-morrow night this year’s harvest will be all gathered. To-morrow we’ll get that piece we have on Zablati finished up, and then we’ll thresh it all together. But don’t you work so hard, Marianka. To-day it was awfully hot, and you, poor thing, had to work twice as hard. Petr home?