Olga. Me? Afraid of them?!
Rodion. Okay, not them, but only one – Myshevsky.
Olga. What nonsense! I don't want to hear that.
Rodion. Then why don't you leave? Well, I'll tell you what the reason: Myshevsky told you to wait for him here. And you have to listen to me because you can't disobey him. I am tormenting you, but you have to endure it. Suffering, but enduring. How could this psycho take such power over you? Tell me Olya!
Olga. Shut up!
Rodion. No, I won’t be silent!
Olga. Then speak up! Whatever you want. After all, you are a man! A real cool guy! It’s nothing for you to hurt a weak woman! Just a trifle!
Rodion. I don't want to hurt you, but save you.
Olga. To save from whom?
Rodion. From Myshevsky. From his rats. From such a life which is like a used condom.
Olga. And how are you going to save me, boy?
Rodion. Let's run away, Olya! You and me together. To the edge of the world where they won't find us. And soon they will forget about our existence. Why would they need us? After all, there is nothing to take from us!
Olga. That's it!
Rodion. What do you mean?
Olga. I mean the Iguazu Falls.
Rodion. But isn't love more important?
Olga. Nothing in life is more important than the Iguazu Falls.
Rodion. I will stop wasting my life and will work like everyone else. And one day…
Olga. I don't need it one day. I'll be too old and ugly by that time. Why do I need the Iguazu Falls then? In mockery?!
Rodion. You just don't love me…
Olga. I can't leave this room, you're right. But you can.
Rodion. Yes I can.
Olga. Then leave. Don't torture me and yourself. It’s all over.
Rodion. You forgot to add “boy”. Say it and I'll leave.
Olga. Boy.
Rodion leaves. Olga falls into a chair and cries silently. Golyshkin enters.
Golyshkin. Olenka! Why are you crying?
Olga. Not at all, Stalver Udarpyatovich.
Golyshkin. Really? Maybe, maybe… Since recent time I haven't been feeling normally. I always hear some voices, some steps… as if my house has been inhabited by ghosts. Do you know what I think about it?
Olga. I have no idea, professor!
Golyshkin. The reason is Hermes Trismegistus.
Olga. Oh, professor!
Golyshkin. Oh, please, don't interrupt me, Olenka! You don’t quite understand whose spirit we have awoken. He was the greatest rebel of all times and peoples, just terrible! In one of his books titled "The Emerald Tablet", written several millennia BC, he wrote: "As above, is so below, as below, is so above, and there is no small and great, but everything is one." Do you feel what satanic pride is hidden in this phrase?
