The Queen of Spades Page #4

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But Anna Fyodorovna...

But, but! Always objections.

I was about to remind you that Prince Fyodor is here.

Hm, well...

Now get the book.

What were we reading?

Don Juan, Countess.

I think it's on the shelf here.

Love stories, love stories.

Always reading love stories.

What are you doing there?

Not there, not there!

Close it!

Close it, I said! Close it!

How dare you!

You're a wicked, wicked girl.

I'm sorry, Anna Fyodorovna.

I had no idea there was anything there. I'm...

Where is the key to that door?

Give it to me.

I have no key, Anna Fyodorovna, I tell you...

Have you used that staircase to admit others

to your room?

How could you say such...

Lies and duplicity!

No one in this house speaks the truth,

not anyone.

I will see, Lizaveta Ivanovna.

We shall find the key missing.

Oh...

There it is...

after all.

Prince Krykulin and Prince Narumov.

Quick! Give me my stick!

Give me my stick.

How do you do, grandmother?

Allow me to present my friend, Andrei Andeievich,

Prince Narumov.

Be seated. And you too, Fyodor.

No, no, no!

Oh, my poor little one.

Narumov... Narumov... yes.

I remember your dear mother quite well.

Princess Darya Petrovna.

That was my grandmother, Countess.

Your grandmother?

Oh, yes, yes.. Of course.

I was forgetting.

What have you been reading lately, Fyodor?

You must bring me some of the latest French novels.

Not one where the heroine drowns herself for love.

Varvaruschka!

What is it, my little one.

Oh, there. Tell old Varvaruschka all about it.

I know I oughtn't to mind anymore.

But she's so cruel Varvaruschka, darling.

Why should she be so cruel?

She's old. She's near the grave

and she hasn't found peace, poor soul.

I was so happy once.

A home, my mother, my father.

So happy.

You will be again, poor lonely heart.

Will I?

Sometimes I feel I'll never leave this house.

I know.

Little caged bird.

But you'll see. Be patient.

And someday soon, perhaps,

you will meet someone who will love you very much.

He will help you to be free and happy again.

Where is that dog taking us?

This is not the way to the bird market.

It's the way we always come, Anna Fyodorovna.

Well, it looks quite different to me.

Lizaveta Ivanovna?

Orderly Narumov. I came with Fyodor Pavlovitch

the other day

I hoped to be presented to you but you ran away.

Yes, of course, Prince Narumov.

May I accompany you?

Yes, if you wish.

I have to buy some more little birds

for the countess's aviary.

Your honor.

Buy a nice fat duck, sir.

Buy a duck, sir.

A duck, buy a nice fat duck.

Yes, your honor?

I hate to see caged birds.

How can one enjoy their singing?

If I ever come into a fortune I shall buy all little birds.

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