suitable! Me give myself up to tender sentiments! Trampled upon,
broken-spirited, and as if that's not enough, in my idiocy I must needs
fall in love! And of all people in the world! With a woman, whom I may
never have the luck to speak a word to. (_Silence_.) But for all that, I
can't get her out of my head, try as I will. Here she is! Coming with her
husband, oh! and the mother-in-law with them! Ah, what a fool I am! I must
snatch a look at her round the corner, and then home again.

[_Exit. From the opposite side, enter Mme. Kabanova, Kabanov, Katerina and
Varvara_.]




SCENE V

MADAME KABANOVA, KABANOV, KATERINA and VARVARA.


MME. KABANOVA.
If you care to listen to your mother, you'll do as I have told you,
directly you get there.

KABANOV.
How could I possibly disobey you, mother!

MME. KABANOVA.
Young folks show little respect to their elders, nowadays.

VARVARA (_to herself_).