MELNIKOV.
CLERK.
USHER.
YOUNG LAWYER.
PETRUSHIN. A lawyer.
LADY.
ANOTHER OFFICER.
ATTENDANT AT LAW COURTS.
PROTOSOVS' NURSE.
PROTOSOVS' MAID.
AFREMOV'S FOOTMAN.
KARENINS' FOOTMAN.




ACT I

SCENE I

Protosovs' flat in Moscow. The scene represents a small dining room.
ANNA PAVLOVNA, a stout, gray-haired lady, tightly laced, is sitting
alone at the tea-table on which is a samovar.

Enter NURSE carrying a tea-pot.

NURSE (enters R. I, over to table C.). Please, Madam, may I have some
water?

ANNA PAVLOVNA (sitting R. of table C.). Certainly. How is the baby