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all you had to do was lift
your arms and fly away.
Shall we try it again?
You try, Ksenia Nikolayevna.
I have.
What I said was from a play.
Glad to see you back,
Dimitri Fyodorovich.
I knocked and knocked.
Were you asleep?
Come, dear,
I won't go away again.
Meet my son.
Give the baby some peace.
He just stands and smokes.
Says he loves her.
Speak to him.
Tell him he mustn't.
How can I?
But she's married.
I'll speak to him
when he comes back from Sochi.
Don't be nasty to her -
she's so young.
Did I behave like that
when I was young?
I can't bear the sight of her!
Seventeen!
Why, I'm grown up!
Many happy returns.
Who is it?
Oh, Sergei.
I thought it was a guest.
Come in, Sergei.
Gone? Run after him.
Why should I?
As if I cared!
Ah, so he's decided to come back.
We promised to go.
They're expecting us.
Has someting gone wrong at work?
Don't forget the perfume.
Shall we give her a book as well?
Perhaps "Structural Geology"?
Lida, what's the trouble?
Come along.
Are geologists ever
in mortal danger?
Sometimes.
How simply wonderful!
Why aren't you dancing, Galya?
Do come in for a minute.
I can't. I haven't been late
for a performance in 40 years.
And tonight is a closing performance.
Best wishes.
Turn off the music, Dad.
- Why?
- For an elocution lesson.
If you don't like it
you can leave.
She's stage-struck.
Why is it people don't fly?
Why is it they don't fly
like birds?
Sometimes I fancy I'm a bird ...
and have but to lift my arms
and fly away.
Go on, go on, we're listening.
Go on with your fish.
I'm sorry, Sergei.
I must be no good at all.
They ate fish while I recited.
- Were they at your party?
- Yes.
He didn't eat fish, did he?
No, not he.
"Go on with your fish!"
How do you like that?
Why wasn't Sergei there?
Have they quarelled again?
Those two children
You were the gayest at the party.
I got a letter
asking me to come ...
I've just got to find that pyrite.
Go if you must.
It'll mean only 2 or 3 months of work.
Work! I'm used to having ...
your work come first.
I wouldn't mind if I came second.
But work comes second with you,
and third, and tenth!
As for me ...
Why did I buy that new mirror?
I'm going home to mother.
Go ahead.
I certainly will.
I haven't even dared to have a baby.
I kept waiting until
we "settled down".
After all, we only live once.
That's the whole thing:
we only live once.
Perhaps I am unworthy of you,
but I can't go on like this.
What has happened?
Now everybody's troubles are the same.
War!
I've heard. I can't find my bag.
I passed my last exam yesterday.
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