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there wouldn't be any people.

Well, yes, but... but you do believe,

of course, that we're all equal?

- Are we?

- Not yet, but we should be.

Then who would be servant

and who would be master?

There wouldn't be any servants.

We'd all be masters.

Who would do the work then?

Oh, you numbskull.

Katusha, you're only beautiful.

You're not bright.

Now look here. Stop that!

Who does the air belong to?

I don't know.

Do you have to pay

to breathe air?

No.

Now we are getting somewhere.

And the water,

who owns the water?

- What kind of water?

- There's only one kind of water!

Who owns it?

The man who owns the well?

No, no... the water in the ocean.

Salt water, let's say.

What is it good for,

except pickles?

You're hopeless.

But I'll make you

understand this if I have to...

Get up.

Come here.

Now kiss me.

Come on, I'm ordering you to.

Kiss me.

There! Now do you see

what I mean?

No.

- Why did you kiss me?

- Because you asked me to.

- Why did I ask you to?

- I don't know.

Well, I'll tell you why.

Because being a nobleman, I knew

that if I asked you to do something,

you'd have to do it.

Now why have I the right

to force you against your will?

Why should...

- Well, you didn't exactly force me.

- Keep quiet when I'm talking.

Who is it

that gives me that privilege?

God? No, no, no...

the accident of birth.

Why should that be the...

What's the matter?

First, you ask me to kiss you,

and then when I do what you ask,

you shout at me.

No, no, Katusha, don't cry.

Don't cry. I was only arguing.

I was just trying to show you

how unequal things are.

It was just

a philosophical discussion.

But you asked me to...

I know, but I was

just trying to put over a point.

That's all. I didn't have

any desire to kiss you.

No, no, nothing like that.

It was all pure reasoning.

I was just illustrating

an unjust social condition.

There, there. That's all it was.

Don't cry, Katusha.

They've been together

all the summer,

every opportunity they could get.

I don't think

there's any harm in it, Marie.

Every time I've seen them together,

they've been reading a book.

A book can always be put aside.

I'm glad he's leaving today.

Where are you going with it?

Oh, be reasonable, Katusha.

I can't let you have my hat.

The school will have my hide

if I came back without it.

It's part of my uniform.

- Come and get it!

- Please, Katusha! Please!

Here.

Now when you are gone,

I'll have nothing

to remember you by.

If I don't leave you something,

you'll forget me?

No, Dmitri Ivanovitch.

I'll never forget you.

It's been

a marvelous summer, hasn't it?

Next summer, when I come back,

that'll be a marvelous one, too.

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