Myshevsky. No problem! Here's a check in your name. And here is the one for Rodion Stalverovich Golyshkin. Is that right? Here you are!
Golyshkin. Thank you!
Ogranovich. My congratulations, Andrey Sigizmundovich! Wouldn't it be nice to celebrate a long-awaited deal?
Myshevsky. Champagne! Professor, didn’t you say that you have a bottle of champagne somewhere?
Golyshkin. The best champagne in the world. "Soviet"! Olenka, could you please get the glasses! They are in the cupboard.
Olga. How I love champagne! Its bubbles tickle in the nose so funny!
Ogranovich. I would prefer some cognac … Well, okay! Champagne will also do! Hey, psychiatrist, join us! Or do you drink only alone the same way, as you play chess?
Vykhuholev. I drink like everyone else. Chess is just for my soul.
Myshevsky. Professor, your toast please!
Golyshkin. To you, my friends! To our meeting! To our friendship! Let it be eternal!
Myshevsky. Stalver Udarpyatovich, you are a skilled speaker! Great toast! Olga Alekseevna, would you kiss the professor on our behalf? Nobody will disapprove you.
Everyone drinks champagne.
Olga. Look, it's dawn already! And we didn't notice.
Myshevsky. Professor, I'm sorry, but we have to go. New day, new worries.
Golyshkin. Okay, okay, I understand. And I mustn’t delay you any longer… Olenka! Are you leaving too?
Olga. I need to sleep well and wash up. Just look at me! What a face! How can you love such a woman?
Golyshkin. I don't notice it. You're so beautiful!
Olga. I'll be back tonight. And don’t forget, I've not got used to having dinner at home. We're going to a restaurant!
Golyshkin. And we will discuss everything about our future there, right?
Olga. Of course! Don't forget to cash the check in the afternoon. Actually, you’d better give it to me. It would be safer. We will go to the bank together. I am afraid, they might cheat you. Or you might mix everything up. After all, you are my philosopher! You don’t live in a real world. But I am an earthly woman. Aren’t you afraid of that?
Golyshkin. I am happy of that.
Olga. See you tonight then!
Golyshkin. See you, Olenka! See you, friends! I look forward to seeing you all any day and any time at my home… Oh, sorry, now this is your home, Mr. Myshevsky. When should I leave?
Myshevsky. I'm not rushing you, professor. Is a month enough for you? I think this time is enough to get visa and collect things for a trip. Nothing keeps you in this country any more. From now on you will be a citizen of the world, Stalver Udarpyatovich. How I envy you!
