Meeting place or chance - A. Papchenko

The first action
Characters:

ALICE - years of twelve
SEREZHA - Of years of twelve.
SCHEGLOV Gleb Aleksandrovich, the inspector, in old age. It is chilled.

Place and action time:

In the house of parents of  Serezha. A door on street, on kitchen, windows in a court yard. It is more than rooms, but two will be necessary for us. Parents of  Serezha people well-founded - it is appreciable by conditions. Local light - a sconce. The TV - «a house cinema» is included: there is a reporting from a place of a robbery of "Krediteksportbanka". On the screen "picture" black-and-white. A sound of shots also howl militian sirens, because of house windows merges with noise of television criminal transfer:

On the TV:
Voice of the JOURNALIST: - ... we will try to approach more close... Gleb Aleksandrovich!
Voice SCHEGLOV (chilled); - Clean these … from me! Lines!
Voice of the JOURNALIST; - And here sad... Stop! – a roar, noise, - We have a constitutional law! Only not the chamber!! – a roar, noise; - So, we continue our reporting from an event place! "Krediteksportbank" has just been plundered. We conduct live broadcast from this place... a sad place... Kesha, here the sad person – be presented.
Voice of the DIRECTOR of the plundered bank; - That?

Roar. The door in a room is slightly opened - slams. Struggle noise. Vocal murmurs.

SEREZHA voice: - Go home! Well, where you... Where you climb?! Bring down give from here! Stand...

At a door, trying not to start up ALICE in apartment,  SEREZHA squeezes. Overcoming its resistance of Alice manages to climb through in the house. On Alice  shorts. Children are soiled. In hands at Alice a heavy dirty cardboard box. Аlice in a stupor.

SEREZHA; - the Fool! To you of that? The idiot! A donkey! The moron! You of that were co-ordinated?!

On the TV:
Voice of the JOURNALIST, to the DIRECTOR of bank: - So as you explain...
Voice SEREZHA ; - Who has started up the press? Immediately to clean this gang! The sergeant!
The DIRECTOR of the plundered bank, to the JOURNALIST; - The Bum! At me there a key! Alarm systems! It is fixed! In a floor! I have sat down blow! I have fallen to it!

Along the street by the house the militian car is carried by: a reflexion «alarm lantern» on walls, howl sirens, light of headlights...

SEREZHA: - It is silent!

SEREZHA draws curtains, turns off the light.

SEREZHA; – And it what for you have dragged it here?! Throw out! Give here, go - in-rju... Give!

On the TV:
Voice of the DIRECTOR of bank; - What happiness! It has lifted alarm! It ringed without ceasing! From blow! A bum! A key!
Voice of Scheglova; - It is necessary to shine with headlights boondocks... Kohl, order there.
Voice of the JOURNALIST; - Gleb Aleksandrovich, to steam of words!
Voice SCHEGLOVA; - What is the matter?! Or... I... immediately... - sneeze! – immediately clean the chamber!

SEREZHA throws out a box for a door.

SEREZHA ; - Has seized! Well, if us have seen! Silence! silently, I speak! No. It seemed... You of that have become attached?! You where live? Who asked to snatch you another's carriage? The moron, whether that absolutely? Silently!

On the TV:
Voice of the DIRECTOR of bank; - It has fallen. On me. And by...
Voice SCHEGLOVA to the DIRECTOR of bank; - You can intelligently speak?
Voice of the DIRECTOR of bank; - Where? Already?
SEREZHA  : - And, lines! - switches off the TV and listens: - You Hear? No... It seemed. You what are silent? You the loony? Or on holidays? Well, if us have noticed - to us a cover. You of that? To you it is bad?

ALICE settles on a floor.

SEREZHA; - You that?!! Was stunned, whether that? Mum... Still here at me... You will die. A pancake! - runs on kitchen and comes back with plastic glass with ice from a refrigerator: - On! Ice it! Well, it is fine - I. Do not snatch hands - I speak! I speak - ice! Has become deaf, whether that? Ice! Yes ice it. You understand? For the person mum does it. That at it the face was be not afraid... Here, on a nape. I speak - on a nape. Hold so... All! Sit and do not move. Here has fallen down my head...
ALICE; - What for...
SEREZHA; - You in general shut up! You at all do not ask! Clearly? Has got me the lotions! Well, if us have noticed... The Moron! Silence! Is not present, it seemed... Mum, in the same place both boxes and a carriage. If will calculate - will kill. Because of you all! Who did you ask to suffice another's carriage?! Still to fight climbs... The Moron! These shoot, and this has seized.
ALICE ;- ... The Hand.
SEREZHA : - Silence!

By the house passes the militian car: a gleam «signal», howl sirens...

SEREZHA; - the Hardware-s-s...
ALICE:-... To a sandbox...
SEREZHA: - it is silent! No! As though is already more silent, yes? Calms down, as though. Yes?

Noise of militian sirens really calms down.

SEREZHA; - You sit, and I will look. I descend, I will look...
ALICE; - Where?!
SEREZHA; - You  absolutely already? Release a foot! Unhook, the moron! How at night to wander, so it we are not afraid and how to sit two minutes so it we cannot! Sit, do not try, and that... Ladies on a teapot.

SEREZHA goes to the next room. Turns off the light, that it was visible better... Looks out of the window.
ALICE on tiptoe goes to  SEREZHA. On her face the brown liquid from thawn on a nape, ice flows down.

SEREZHA; - a fig you will not disassemble... In such darkness. But as though is more silent. Would be... The device of night vision, and so...
ALICE; - Well? What there?
SEREZHA; - it is not visible a fig... - looks back on ALICE, - Ma!!!

ALICE squeals.  SEREZHA includes light.

SEREZHA; - «Ma!» And in a forehead you do not want? You asked to creep? In general that asked you? You asked to sit! No, it is what that the idiot. A thriller. Such physiognomy red and "ма" creeps up to you. Nerves already any, and it creeps. Lines! And well, give bring down home!
ALICE; - I...
SEREZHA: - Bring down, I speak. To you where?
ALICE: - On Pushkin.
SEREZHA: - Well, here, it here nearby. All! Hip-hop! That you stand?
ALICE; -  I...
SEREZHA: - You do not want on the good? Then on the bad!

Serezha drags Alice to a door, that desperately resist-clings to all that will get. Alice bites Serezha.

SEREZHA; - A-a-a! Lines!  Why You  bite? In general already?! Painfully, a pancake...
ALICE; - And you of that... To be kicked?
SEREZHA; - You as call?
ALICE; - Larissa. Tsapushkina
SEREZHA; - Well and so, Larissa... How?!!
ALICE; - La -ri - sа!
SEREZHA; - As it...
ALICE; - «Here nearby»?! If me about "Orbit" will seize I you I will not screen! If me will ask with whom I was, think I about you I will not tell?! Well, what to leave?
SEREZHA: - As it...
ALICE; - That «as it»? How it to leave? Or, how it in the middle of night to me to come back home bypassing "Orbit" not to get to militia? And you will sleep sluggishly and immoderately here, how a background-baron, as though at anything? And I there will be on court yard dash aside? Yes?
SEREZHA: - As it... Tsapushkina?
ALICE; - So for all it is better if I till the morning here stay. Do not strain, my ancestors on a summer residence - will not search. A bathroom where?
SEREZHA; - That?
ALICE; - The Bathroom!
SEREZHA; - What...
ALICE; - That "what"? Or you on small river to bathe go?
SEREZHA; - That is there...
ALICE; - You the loony! 

ALICE goes to a bathroom.

SEREZHA; - Stand, how it is Larissa? As it...
ALICE from a bathroom; - It is necessary to survey You!
SEREZHA; - So I mean... And you... You... And we... Me...
ALICE from a bathroom: - to Treat! If someone cannot already distinguish the boy from the girl, so it in general clinic!
SEREZHA; - Why? I can... To distinguish, but... Same somehow close, somehow in the afternoon, somehow... Br-r-r! Go balmy it is possible! To be stunned!
ALICE from a bathroom: - And there can be at which - whom here an illness sexually awful? And? At someone?
SEREZHA; - At whom it?
ALICE from a bathroom: - At whom? And you do not suspect yourself? And?
SEREZHA; - I?
ALICE; - You! You!
SEREZHA; - I?
ALICE; - Here, has taken...
SEREZHA; - You here it... You here not very much. And that appearance. It is yet known at whom here illness...
ALICE leaves a bathroom in a huge dressing gown: - That you to me sniff, the boy? It sniffs still. Where to me here to sleep? Time you know how many?
SEREZHA: - You what for took a daddy's dressing gown?
ALICE; - the Family relic, what? I ask you - know what is the time?
SEREZHA; - Half second. It is a dressing gown daddy's!
ALICE; - You has jammed? I not time ask you is a rhetorical question. About a dressing gown I too do not ask... Rhetorical - designates what to sleep it is time. Also it turns out that I ask you, bedding where? Also it is not necessary to sniff. Itself has enticed, and still sniffs.
SEREZHA; - Who has enticed?! I have enticed? Yes you have seized, as...
ALICE; - Bedding!
SEREZHA; - Fie! - searches in a case, - Has enticed... It was necessary to run home to itself, and that...
ALICE; - Accessories!
SEREZHA; - Here your accessories! Lay down here on a sofa. And I there. In that room... Has enticed, the main thing. Well, a trick...

Serezha  leaves in other room. Spreads the bed.

SEREZHA : - A Madhouse any...
ALICE: - That you there mutter?
SEREZHA: - I Speak - weather good.
ALICE: - To You have rebuked, you should consider it... Instead of to grumble, as... As any horse.
The SEREZHA opens a window in the room: - What else horse?

ALICE  and Serezha  in other room - in the bed lays down on a sofa. Before to lay down, it switches off light in the room.

ALICE: - Prehistoric...
SEREZHA silently; - You... A horse prehistoric - it is loud: - it is good still that us have not noticed... Has enticed!... And that would sit now in militia. Whether the rain that has gone? Precisely - a rain...
ALICE; - You that... Whether that has opened a window?
SEREZHA; - Still a box has dragged... Has enticed. To do to me there is nothing... Here on a fig you dragged a box?
ALICE; - I do not know... Has seized also it... Hey, you do not sleep yet?
SEREZHA; - I Sleep... I "do not know" - and tell - was frightened.
ALICE: - It is possible to think you was not frightened...

Rain noise behind windows.

SEREZHA: - It is admissible...
ALICE; - Hey, and... It is obligatory that a window opened?

In the street the thunder-storm begins. A lightning, a thunder.

ALICE; - Hey... You do not sleep? How there you? You...
SEREZHA; - I Sleep...
ALICE; - Hey... And you... You are not afraid?
SEREZHA; - M-m-m...
ALICE; - That? What have you told? And I... Understand I...

Thunder peal.

ALICE; - Mum...
SEREZHA; - Sleep already...
ALICE; - Yes? Sleep... To you it is good, and I...

ALICE draws in the room of a curtain. Then tries to remove from a window a sofa. That suddenly easily moves, dropping on the way, furniture.

SEREZHA; - That?! Where?! - jumps.
ALICE; - Excuse... I am simple from a window. To remove. And it has gone...
SEREZHA; - You absolutely already?! You understand, what now hour in general? And? That furniture to move? The little fool, whether that absolutely?
ALICE; - Excuse... From a window, that... If they get into windows, so it...
SEREZHA; - That?!
ALICE; - Well, what has stared? And if I, for example, am afraid to sleep about a window in a thunder-storm?
SEREZHA; - In general a madhouse. How to gad at night, another's carriages to seize, so it you are not afraid, and as... Can pour to you of vodka? That you have glazed over, till the morning? Sleep at night, cut! All over the world, cut... Instead of sofas drag. Difficult you any!
ALICE; - Yes, you are afraid! Aha! Only a kind you do! You think, I do not know.
SEREZHA; - Not so I am afraid. Because I logic. Clearly? And at what here a kind? "Will get". If would mark already for a long time have climbed. You think, I not ду to May a head?

ALICE; - And can they just on a trace - and? - Go.
SEREZHA; - Traces already are not present. Traces a thunder-storm has washed off. Same it is logically clear.
ALICE; - And can is better... Can to you to a foot a string adhere? On everyone...
SEREZHA; - That?!
ALICE; - Well, a string. That I knew that you on a place. That anywhere it. And with you it... Well, that you have stared at me? Whence I knew, what at you too shoot?!
SEREZHA; - But I know now precisely at whom here illness. Whom here it is necessary to treat... Sleep, give. Has thought up too - a string... Absolutely already creasy...
ALICE; - As you only can sleep after everything that happens...

Serezha leaves in the room, and lays down in a bed. ALICE notices on a regiment a toy. Presses a cover. Of a casket jumps out little devil and with a laughter ALICE for a finger suffices. ALICE squeals.

SEREZHA; - do not pry, where you do not ask...
ALICE; - What is it?
SEREZHA; - the Special device for curious girls. You put on a cover a nose and bo-o-om!
ALICE; - Well and blockheads your designers... You do not sleep yet?
SEREZHA; - I Sleep...
ALICE; - Is a computer? Yes? What? I speak - your parents where? What? You do not sleep yet? Is not present? I speak, as you only are not afraid to live on the ground floor, without lattices. What? No, I on the sixth floor. At us with grating  though it is impossible as robbers on the sixth floor will get. Ridiculously, the truth? The aunt my Margarita, oh, it such coward, is even more than I. Though, of course, at you a window in a court yard and in general the house. You represent, in the Ukrainian borsch it is necessary to add sugar. The mind boggles - sugar. No, you tell... What? What do you speak? Well, at you what fence very tall... Hey... You do not sleep? I. I about you here will stay? Anything? I here quietly...

ALICE passes in Serezha  room. A thunder-storm. A thunder. A lightning.

ALICE; - As it is possible to sleep... Oh! Mum... You, probably, purposely pretend to be? What? Sleeps... Has definitively fallen asleep. That... As to me... Mum... He sleeps, and I. And me... God. Hi, God. You hear? It I, your Branch. You can think, what I only when to me it is terrible? You think, what I make up to you? Yes? You do not think... Do not think... Can and make up. Oh! Thanks! Has flown by by. Thanks, God. At you, of course, other problems. People... Mum!... Sink to Haiti. In Japan earthquake. And still... Well. You and itself know. Oh! Again has by flown by, I inform you, God. Thanks... That... You do not think, I to you will not forget it, only... Only do not kill me. You kind - kind, I know. And to that differently, what for to you to listen... Oh! Again... By. At the same time... You look after the daddy, all right. And where he now gads?! You know, how I love it. And it such... Oh!. The careless. It enrages me directly! Here it is eternal to it it is necessary most. And mum spoke. Greetings to it... Too. Yes, nearly has not forgotten... Do not show me more this dream. Well, which... Which with a hand in a sandbox. That I to you... I... All right? Itself, probably, the such you do not look... To me too it is terrible. And you, how thought? Well I will say goodbye, all right, and that really, to do to you there is nothing, as soon as me to listen. And in the rest all at me is good, that and you I wish... For today all. Good-bye, God. Your Branch... And this... All sleeps. Unless it is possible to fall asleep in such noise? And it can... Does not move. Mum... Hey, you... Lift a foot that I knew that you still... Why you do not move? And well rise, and how I will burst! A knee on a teapot!! And that I...

Serezha raises a hand.

ALICE; - Mum!!
SEREZHA; - all Can - таки uoki-currents? Instead of a string?ВОПРОС
ALICE; - So you... You pretended to be?
SEREZHA - to Do to me there is nothing more...
ALICE; - Pretended to be specially dead, that I... Here so, yes?!

ALICE leaves in the room. Serezha  rises, closes a window and searches for a string in a case.

ALICE; - Din - din -din - the malicious magician has died.
SEREZHA; - to Do to me there is nothing as soon as to search for any foolish cords at night more...

Serezha  heaves ALICE the line of a linen cord.

ALICE: - What is it? What for?
SEREZHA starts to collect a string: - you do not want, it is not necessary...
ALICE: - Where?! All right, has persuaded!

ALICE the cord end suffices.

SEREZHA: - "Has persuaded". Painfully I need to persuade... - quietly: - that peeps, wanders, as... As I do not know that...
ALICE; - You to me grumble a little - grumble a little...

Serezha  winds the ankle with other end of a cord and lays down.

ALICE; - You as call?
SEREZHA; - Sergey. A surname Trefilov. All? Well, then good night.
ALICE; - And my name is... А-а, you already know. Well, and so that I to you will tell Trefilov... If you have shot there, you would be the most silent both quiet and fearless dead man in the world. You would lie to yourself such... Thoughtful all... br-r-r that I tell it.
SEREZHA; - You Will become silent, anytime, in general?
ALICE; - Just about, now you will damn me for the rest of the life. It has broken to me destiny. From-at-ve-chi-la.ВОПРОС It moved a sofa. Became attached a cord. And at that time when I weigh logic, it such all on the contrary, though also remarkable in a shower. All on the contrary! Only about it I, undiscerning, did not guess. Offended by its rough expressions, shouted at it, spoilt with ice. And here, once having woken up early in the morning, I have found out its cooled down...
SEREZHA; - The Corpse!
ALICE; - The Fool! Its cooled down trace and only unearthly, divine, stunned aroma of its very expensive spirits, because cheap I
I do not transfer, a minute of grief and grief will remind me of it. About! It has disappeared, cunningly, without having said goodbye, and I have for ever lost remarkable possibility to make friends with this fine person. It was the angel. And I have missed... In my soul the crack was for ever formed! About!
SEREZHA; - In brains at me the crack from you was formed...
ALICE; - It is very ridiculous. Well-well, further.
SEREZHA; - Further? And it still needs to be looked who from us the fine person. That then to any Larissa elbows should not be bitten:
The silly woman I the silly woman, what for I another's carriage sufficed...
ALICE; - I and knew! And knew! A carriage! I thought that it is mine. In the same place it was dark. And then, when you have already jumped out...

ALICE starts to collect a cord.

SEREZHA; - Has jumped out?! It you have jumped out. I am cut nothing - any boy drags a carriage. I on good - wished to ask, that you another's good suffice? And it as will shout - I sweat.
ALICE; is I wished to tell - I will presoak. I have got confused, I wished to tell I will presoak, well in sense I will beat, and have forgotten. Has taken off from a head. I stand, I think, something with rinsing connected. With something wet. As wet has thought, and has blurted out - I sweat.
SEREZHA; - It has angered Me - I think, it also sweats. I here with a broom crept sweated, and it sweats.
ALICE; - Yes, it is very a pity.
SEREZHA; - Has found that to be sorry. There ponies roll every day...
ALICE; - Not that. It is a pity that who was born in the ninetieth, to that already twelve...
SEREZHA; - Also what?

The end of the first action
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The second action
ALICE; - I would not like to die at all. You lie, as the little fool in a coffin, and all look at you. I and so hesitate when on me all... And here... Suddenly at you in clothes something was unbuttoned. Or a hairdress...
SEREZHA; - And you that... This? Refugees from the South? From the Chechen Republic?

The stretched cord pulls the Ear ring a foot and it starts it to collect.

SEREZHA; – Chyo you... Do not take offence. I understand - you probably on the native land miss, and it... People miss on the native land. Who is the Branch?
ALICE; – So the daddy calls me. In the nature there is no native land. The good country the native land do not name. And here there where kill people... So it is the Native land.

The stretched string pulls ALICE a hand.

SEREZHA; - And you remember, what видок at you was, when ice has thawn?
ALICE; - the Terrible state at me in these shorts. It is all Margarita - dress yes dress.
SEREZHA; - At what here trousers, when a head...
ALICE; - That, I on yours the ugly creature?
SEREZHA; - Why? It can even... And on the contrary. Well, it is beautiful. Only it... Thin only.
ALICE: - That?!
SEREZHA: - But it of anything. At me on a school desk the neighbour, Sashka, took and отъелся. And that while was ill absolutely дистрофаном became.
ALICE; - Here спасибочки! I mean the patient?

ALICE collects a cord.

SEREZHA; - Why the patient? I simply wished to tell... Well, here has forgotten.
ALICE; - Here so always. The boy will decide to tell to the girl a compliment, and will necessarily tell mucks: the patient, getting thin, shorts not those. And then will make the plaintive person and... Has forgotten.
SEREZHA; - Any mess. About shorts I did not speak. I precisely remember it. I simply wished to tell... Fie, has forgotten! Here spins, and I can not recollect.
ALICE; - Probably, you simply hesitate. Probably, you wished to tell that нибудь about my eyes. Yes? What they beautiful. Therefore allow to be on friendly terms. Yes? And then застеснялся also has pretended that has forgotten. Yes?
SEREZHA; - whether It I that wanted about eyes? The nonsense any!
ALICE: - Means my eyes to you are not pleasant. My eyes any nonsense, which for whom. Whether so?
SEREZHA: - Why nonsense?
ALICE: - Aha! Time not nonsense, means the beautiful...

The stretched cord pulls the Ear ring.

SEREZHA; - Yes... in general it is correct, the person at you beautiful...
АЛИСАALICE; - Well, at last has fallen in love...
SEREZHA; - I?!
ALICE; - Begins... Here, for a long time, in the first class too one has fallen in love with me. So I simply could not make out its half a year. Only I will turn - it - shurh - in the textbook, or under a school desk. Only pale ears sparkle...
SEREZHA; - Not I not such... The person at you beautiful … Means so,
ALICE; - Trefilov!
SEREZHA; - And what? I objective. And a nose too the snub-nosed. As it is pleasant to me. And it... A hairdress. Yes. And in general...
ALICE; - All?
SEREZHA; - And shorts of anything.
ALICE; - All has told?
SEREZHA; - All.
ALICE; - And at once it is visible that you, Trefilov, understand nothing in love. In the beginning it was necessary that?
SEREZHA; - it is necessary Nothing.
ALICE; - As it of anything? And what нибудь it is necessary to submit signs or it is not necessary? Or at least to suffer, that considerably surrounding was that the person suffers? Or there, for itself, a teeth to gnash in the sleep, a pillow to chew? To dream, at last!
SEREZHA: - That?
ALICE: - To Dream! Well? To dream, you understand?
SEREZHA; - As to a teeth... The Teeth to gnash is from nerves. Or from worms. And to dream, it I do not drive...
ALICE; - Well - at, Trefilov! Well, you absolutely, well droplets, well here столечко, do not understand love!
SEREZHA; - Who does not understand?! I do not understand?!
ALICE; - You!
SEREZHA: - I?!
ALICE; - You! You!
SEREZHA: - Yes what there to understand. Instead of that that foolish signs to submit, it is necessary...
ALICE; - Well?

The stretched cord pulls ALICE.

ALICE; - Well? What instead of signs?
SEREZHA; - Only «let's be on friendly terms», it too a kindergarten.
ALICE; - You ridiculous... But strange. You can artful?
SEREZHA; - Is not present... I not the such. It something has attacked me. The impudence any.
ALICE; - The Storm what has risen.

ALICE collects a string.

SEREZHA; - The Storm...
ALICE:- Listen, and why at you the TV shows to the black-and-white? It at you it has broken?
SEREZHA; - Is I love so... I cut down colour purposely. I love the black-and-white. And cinema.
ALICE: - Yes? Strange...
SEREZHA: - You Will switch off colour and you know that interestingly? Here colour - green, and violet, same different colours?
ALICE: - Different, well also what?
SEREZHA: - They identical серости. Equally grey. Here so sometimes cinema I look and I start to guess what colour a hood at. This any there... Witches, or what colour the car at the murderer, or... You understand?
ALICE; - What colour at a wind...
SEREZHA: - Is not present, I am serious. Here present; there is a person - a suit red, a tie orange, gloves dark blue. How you to such person?
ALICE; - In a life so unless the clown puts on...
SEREZHA: - Here. And colour you will switch off and quite another matter - very serious person, because all grey. Different degree серости.
ALICE; - The clown, than grey is better...
SEREZHA: - And anybody also does not speak, simply... I do not know as you to tell. It can at me since the childhood. I when at the grandfather of veins, we constantly looked the chronicle. It me directly exhaus the chronicle, the grandfather. And at me so remains probably from it that black-and-white it somehow... You will Not laugh? That it is more fair. Well, and as though it... You trust more, if there is no colour. As documentary. You are cut? Here when houses of anybody, I switch off colour at a TV set. Then even the fantasy on another somehow looks. As though I already in the future also look the future chronicle, but that future that already for me has passed.
ALICE; - You Mean already the old man. The old man of the future.

The cord pulls the Ear ring. Алиса sits down in bed and suddenly unexpectedly notices medallion disappearance. It hung at it on a neck, on a string. Аlice starts to look round.

ALICE; - Me, by the way, call not Larissa. And not Tsapushkina.
SEREZHA; - Has not understood.
ALICE; - Well, I have joked. Itself think - to Tsa-push-ki-na. Well and a surname.

ALICE includes the TV to muffle noise moved by it in search of a medallion of chairs and other things.

Voice from the TV:- ...Touching and deepest line of the childhood - unconscious belief in necessity of common sense...

SEREZHA: - Hey, you what for have cut a TV set?
The voice from the TV continues: - Hence, time in something is not present common sense, it is necessary to search that has deformed it or where it has got lost.
ALICE: - Actually my name is Nastja of the Sokolov. And I have thought up Tsapushkinu, when wanted, that me have regretted. That did not offend. Ларисонька we will not offend you...

The voice from the TV continues: - The Childhood believes that the world is reasonable, and all unreasonable are hindrances which can be eliminated, it is necessary to turn the necessary lever...

ALICE in search of a medallion leaves in a bathroom.

SEREZHA; - The First time I hear, that people so without ceremony thought out names. Hey, you where?

The voice from the TV continues: - I have resulted this citation from Fazilja Iskandera deliberately, that...

Other voice from the TV: - But it has what relation to infantile adults?

ALICE leaves a bathroom.

ALICE; - Yet that you will hear. Listen, you did not find here such small... железненькую the such... On a string...
SEREZHA: - That? Cut down a TV set!
Voice from the TV; - Ordinary error to represent the infantile adult such he mum's sonny, the blunderer...
ALICE: - Here you know... In what I carried manure, yet have not picked up on a dustbin a children's carriage?

The voice from the TV continues: - Frequently it quite, especially at first sight, the self-assured mister. It is infantile only that is perfect on children's perceives... Here is how at Fazilja Iskandera, he trusts in that what enough to press any button, or to move the lever and a problem will be solved. He trusts that any harm only a hindrance which can be eliminated it easily. While the world diverse, in it all shades of a rainbow, a semitone. And this, whether know, original daltonism results...

SEREZHA; - In what? Cut down a TV set, what it shouts at you?

ALICEswitches the channel.

Voice of chilled Scheglova;... the Central Bank instructions have been broken, concerning corrected currency storages. I do not exclude that it not result of a negligence, and a collusion...

The DIRECTOR of bank the quiet concentrated voice; - I confirm – your assumptions are absolutely unfounded and have under itself no any soil.
ALICE to the TV; - At, the physiognomy... - also switches off the TV; - In plastic such bucket and in a cellophane bag.
SEREZHA; - In a bag? You say lies!!

ALICE having despaired ceases to search for a medallion, takes a bottle and a wine-glass.

ALICE; - And here is how that the rain has gone. You understand - manure has become limp. Heavy became. I was loaded and into a trolley bus.

ALICE a little bit drinks...

SEREZHA; - Also what?
ALICE; - And that! The handle at a bucket suddenly, as bah! And all this manure, as will flop! On a floor. The cleanest, but half with water. And the people extensively. And from a trolley bus at the first stop.
SEREZHA; - And you?
ALICE; - And that I. I stand and I smile, as the little fool.
SEREZHA; - Well, and further?
ALICE; - Further? Further all is simply remarkable...

ALICE takes a pencil and it presses a toy cover. And thus gets jammed a toy. The toy breaks and from time to time, laughs loudly.

ALICE; - Too to me of the designer... And further... Further at me the cellophane bag has spread. Under the meanness law. I it and and... Differently, but has not rescued. And a bag too as бряк! Splashes! And I smile. You represent? I stand as smelly horror walking. As the manure monster.

ALICE drinks still a little bit and puts a bottle on a floor. The ear ring is smothered by a humorous hysterics. The thunder and a lightning cease, though the downpour goes on the former.

SEREZHA; - Also what? You have not arrested?
ALICE; - Let would try, the smelly such. More shortly - I collect the manure rests... No, it is impossible to recollect it. From it can... Can... More shortly - I come, and aunt Margarita on a summer residence. Good luck has smiled. I manure on a balcony, in a box from under these... Fruit, and itself in a shower.

The ear ring goes to a room of ALICE.

ALICE; - I Hear - people in the street shout. Thought meeting. Then lo and behold downwards... Here that you think?
SEREZHA; - I do not know...
ALICE; - Here a damnation - a box, where I manure... Such holes were shorter in it here. It from under fruit! And here manure drips, drips, drips... On heads the passer-by. Br-r-r!
SEREZHA; - Become silent...
ALICE; - To be silent! I have told. That is... As it... To a foot - a place - to sit! Well, yes, like a dog I still remember... When was the doggie. At me was...

ALICE throws a pillow in the SEREZHA.
SEREZHA; - You that? Was stunned?
ALICE sings and dances;
- To a small fur-tree in coldly winter!
- The small fur-tree would like home!
- We we - we... There in a small house sit
- The grandfather in these here...and... and... And forty five grandsons!

ALICE drops furniture.

SEREZHA; - You that... A saw, whether that? You drank?
ALICE; - And you... Actually, who such?
SEREZHA; - The Saw! And has already thought...
ALICE; - Is not present, you who such? I ask! And tell to me, the boy, what you did at night at "Orbit"? У-у, what lotions!
SEREZHA; - Here gives!
ALICE; - To be silent! Also do not look at me so as if I carp at you... Yes! I carp at you. Have twisted here a nest, you understand... Have arranged it... On what I have stopped?
SEREZHA; - On a nest.
ALICE; - Well, yes... Birds... Herons eat ma-alenkimi such червячочечками the such... And you, why such angry?

ALICE drops on a floor a toy. The pencil drops out, the toy will be unblocked, but the damaged mechanism laughs attacks.
Toy: - Ha-ha-ha!
SEREZHA; - the Sokolov, you not so here!
ALICE; - That?! My God... As here hot! It is a pity! Do not approach to me!
SEREZHA ; - That with you?
ALICE; - All! Only all dirty - dirty - dirty and... The smelly! And it is terrible!
Toy: - Ha-ha-ha!
ALICE; - Yes you look, what we shameful with the manure! Shameful what... Hot!

ALICE cracks a window and gets on a window sill.

SEREZHA; - You Will fall and you will kill.
ALICE; - Let! Mum... I muck. Why they shoot?! As to me it is bad. Now me will pull out... And nobody feels sorry for me! Does not protect! Aha?!
Toy: - Ha-ha!

ALICE, having stumbled, falls on street.

SEREZHA ; - Stop!

The ear ring rushes to a window, and having faltered over a cord, falls.

Voice of ALICE: - Let kill...
SEREZHA ; - A-a-a, lines! A pancake! Morning has begun in collective farm!

The ear ring unties a cord from a foot and gets out in a window.

Voice of ALICE: - Something has fallen To me... The Body someone's... A-a-a, here and you! To a small fur-tree it is cold... In wood... At the seventh o'clock...
SEREZHA voice: - You that, have become crazy?! Silently!
Voice ALICE; - It is not pleasant to You, as I on-sing... And how I that-dance?

Noise of a falling body.

Voice ALICE: - The Organism... Sy-has fallen down... ha-ha-ha!
Ear ring voice: - And well rise... Rise, I speak! Give, keep for...

Noise of a falling body.

SEREZHA voice: - Well, what to me you on itself to drag?
Toy: - Ha-ha!
Voice of ALICE: - Let I will catch a cold and I will die... Nobody feels sorry For me...
SEREZHA voice: - Are sorry. Put here a foot. Yes, not here! A pancake! If logically to think - such people does not happen, that, somebody yes was not sorry. Now a hind leg. Left.
Voice ALICE; - This?
EAR RING voice: - Where at you left?
Voice ALICE; - Then this...
SEREZHA voice: - Yes cling... Give!

Children somehow get back into the house through a window.

Toy: - Ha-ha.
SEREZHA ; - You Will shut up, the ugly creature?!

The ear ring kicks a toy. That with a laughter departs to a corner and calms down there.

ALICE; -  Is I here it was not killed nearly, directly...
SEREZHA ; - Give lay down, I will cover...
ALICE; - Only do not swear, please... Ho-was coldly to me...
SEREZHA ; - Can to you of tea? Or give I will include a TV set. Only do not jump more in a window. All right?

The ear ring includes the TV and cleans a sound.

ALICE; - And you know... Me after all not the Sokolov call. If it is che-is fair... Liza Gvozdev. And that I will die of cold and me will bury under the invented name of another's person. The

Sokolov, it for boldness. With-to-lo-va. Yes? Something such courageous... The hawk. Yes? I will not say lies more... Also I sy-will become sulphur as... As... As the chronicle... u-u-u...
SEREZHA; - Here you say lies it...
ALICE; - Because I not ho-want сереть... I do not want some tea. I a lullaby want.
SEREZHA; - That?
ALICE; - The Lullaby...
SEREZHA; - I also do not know... And in general I...
ALICE; - Is very terrible case. The Sou-listen, agree better on a lullaby, and that I you now to a kiss.
SEREZHA: - Yes I do not know!
ALICE: - Yes? Well then now there will be a terrible...
SEREZHA; - Here has become attached... Well, it is fine - all right, as there... Here, lines!
Естедей, about May трабл, симс соу fа эвей... Нау it... -  А-а so I also knew - you laugh! Figs I will sing still. Has found the fool.
ALICE; - I laugh? Who has told that I laugh? Yes, I laugh... I thought you purposely howl.
SEREZHA; - At you has learnt, as you about a fur-tree шпарила...
ALICE: - What else?
SEREZHA: - The Small fur-tree, in coldly winter...
ALICE; - Is I sang, the brought up girl? A nightmare... I after all did not drink never. Thought that I will fall asleep. I probably have gone mad, from all these shots...
SEREZHA: - Yes is not present, at you anything it turned out...
ALICE: - I somehow was on friendly terms with the boy. Well it still was for a long time, somewhere in the fourth class.
SEREZHA: - Is with that that under a school desk hid?
ALICE: - Is not present, with that it so... And it was serious. He from school saw off me. And then us задразнили, and it...
SEREZHA: - Was frightened, whether that?
ALICE: - Simply to jump aside the beginnings. When anybody is not present, it another, and when children nearby... So it became opposite To me, as though I any invalid. Shameful.

That with me nearby it is a shame. I so do not think, but sometimes... How you think this treachery?

The SEREZHA kisses ALICE.

ALICE; - You Know, at them inside splinters of a mirror of the Snow queen...
SEREZHA; - At whom?

SEREZHA: - It Can constraining.
ALICE: - Who?
SEREZHA: - Well with what you were on friendly terms.
ALICE: - I do not know. I would seem to me so never could the friend...
SEREZHA: - That such in general treachery?
ALICE: - Probably not to constrain a word.
SEREZHA: - And if nobody gave any word?
ALICE: - Then... To deceive.
SEREZHA: - Simply to deceive, this treachery?
ALICE: - Well... Probably, only then treachery if to you trust.
SEREZHA: - the ordinary fair person Means be unintentional the traitor cannot?
ALICE: - Probably cannot. What do you speak to me, how it is "unintentional"?
SEREZHA: - Well and if it our scout? They trust it, he swears it?
ALICE: - Figushki-figs, to ours he swore even earlier.
SEREZHA; - Well so that he does not say to them that swears for fun... Look-look, what ridiculous physiognomy!

The ear ring includes a TV sound.

Hoarse voice of Shceglova.-... Their accomplices.
Voice of the Journalist: - So, as a result of a night touch, from office "Krediteksportbank" renting the second and third floors of shop "Orbit", it is stolen six hundred thousand dollars. At an extraordinary session of board of directors of bank, the decision to pay the award at a rate of fifteen percent from stolen is declared, who will render that the real help to a consequence in loss search.
SEREZHA ; is how many... м-м... Ninety thousand?!
ALICE; - Yes.
SEREZHA; - Means, while these there plundered, we how fools crept under bullets?

Voice of the Journalist: -... And here opinion, Gleb Aleksandrovich Shceglov, the known criminalist in our city. You already have estimations concerning persons of robbers?
Voice Shceglova; - It is worked, we work... Both … and … - sneezes!
Voice of the Journalist; - On health... And?
Voice Shceglova; - And? Also we will find.
Voice of the Journalist: - Edward Doronkin from a robbery place, specially for «the Diary of incidents». Remain with us.

The ear ring switches off the TV.

SEREZHA; - To be stunned! Six hundred thousand! Now that's something like it!
ALICE; - Though this night would end more likely.
SEREZHA; - Estimate! Here such grandmas people move, and we with you to summer residents sell manure! To us this money, yes?
ALICE; - You, did not hear?
SEREZHA; - Though time in a life would carry! The unique time. You represent that such six hundred thousand? Yes on this money it is possible... Though that you want it is possible!
ALICE; - Silence! As though the car has stopped...
SEREZHA; - That?
ALICE: - it seemed To me that the car has stopped.

Children listen.

SEREZHA : - Yes is not present, it seemed. Six hundred thousand... And why so in a life? If the big money so it is obligatory not to the one who is able to spend them. Here you will see, now these will start to drink vodka, belongings to buy, them will calculate and will seize. Or will start to divide and will fight.
ALICE; - Yes, it seemed...
SEREZHA ; - As though it is impossible normal to remain with the big money the person. And that at cinema; only to people money - they there and then to kill each other. Here I think it nonsense. If here so logically to approach...
ALICE; - Serezha, you closed an entrance door?
SEREZHA; - That?
ALICE; - You when a box threw out, what I have brought, an entrance door closed?
SEREZHA; - I do not remember... Погоди, now I will look. The ear ring goes to a door. The door opens. On a threshold blotted, SHCEGLOV Gleb Aleksandrovich. It is extremely chilled, with all details following from here, as that cough, a cold and other.

ALICE; - Mum...
SHCEGLOV: - It is quiet. All to remain on the places.
SEREZHA; - That to you...
SHCEGLOV: - At you here it is not locked...
SEREZHA: - You who?
SHCEGLOV: - Militia.

SHCEGLOV are shown by the certificate.

The SEREZHA reads: - The inspector... Managements of the internal... SHCEGLOV Gleb Aleksandrovich.
ALICE; - You on the TV showed, - the Ear ring; is it on a TV set showed.
SHCEGLOV: - Have trumpeted already... Adult houses? Well, there, the daddy. Mum, the grandmother? Lines, well and weather... - sneezes.
SEREZHA ; - Anybody is not present, except here us...
SHCEGLOV: - One? Has not put... And why the door is not locked?
SEREZHA; - They on business trip. They next Sunday will return. They behind things, well "shuttles", and what?
ALICE; - Can... Can to you of tea?
SHCEGLOV: - Hence one. Nasty...
ALICE; - Or coffee can?
SHCEGLOV: - That?
ALICE; - Or can to you...
SHCEGLOV: - You Will speak, when I will ask you. Not otherwise. Clearly?
ALICE; - Yes.
SHCEGLOV: - The Surname. The address.
ALICE; - Polovinkina Natasha. Garden nineteen. Apartment forty four. I help Jure to do lessons.
GOLDFINCHES: - Lessons... And you, hence call Sergey? You Trefilov? So?
SEREZHA ; - Whence you know?
ALICE; - Jura, here lives such Sergey Trefilov?
SHCEGLOV: - Oh, damn! I you asked to be silent! Also cut to itself on a nose - questions are set here by me!
ALICE; - To be silent so to be silent. I simply wanted... To assist. And if to someone it is not necessary for the help...
SHCEGLOV: - Three hours the bank back has been plundered. You catch, Trefilov? And so very much it would be desirable for me know that you did at this time, where and with whom. Try to say lies more convincingly. This your alibi.
SEREZHA; - You think... It I have plundered bank?!
ALICE; - He slept...
SHCEGLOV: - Porot you is necessary, here that I think. That did not gad at night. As сидоровых goats. Here that I think. They did lessons. Here I of the порол and anything, people have grown. He slept. In that case, what is it?

SHCEGLOV shows to the SEREZHA, its notebook.

ALICE; - Here it? And it is valid...
SHCEGLOV: - And with you conversation at me will be separate, the citizen, as there you... Seredinkina...
ALICE; - Why?
SHCEGLOV: - Therefore! So, I repeat a question - It Is what is it? silent. Well. In that case I will help you to recollect. We open this business and on the first page and what we see? And we see here that: Trefilov Sergey. Well, here has a little become wet... And here, I ask to pay attention - the address. And here here further the most interesting. Since January, every Saturday and Sunday from 00.15. Till 00.45 you happened at shop "Orbit". Laudable punctuality. Laudable. Here only this time she has played with you a malicious joke. Here record since this Friday on Saturday. Or you want graphological examination? Think. So, proceeding from the aforesaid I can courageously, with большей a probability share to assume, as today at the moment of a bank robbery, you were at shop. Where I also have picked up this notebook. It lay near to the overturned children's carriage. On boxes with manure. Here such improbable fantastic coincidence. By the way, there is one more proof, but about it later...
SEREZHA; - Yes. It is my notebook.
SHCEGLOV: - Well here, that is another matter. At once it is visible that you are able to do logic conclusions. And that - tea, coffee... And? Seredinkina? That...
ALICE: - It is simple, you have reminded me to Colombo...
SHCEGLOV: - So, one after another - that you did at night at "Orbit"?
SEREZHA; - There a pony... Well, horses on days off of children roll. Collected manure.
SHCEGLOV: - What for to you manure?
SEREZHA: - So fertilizers to summer residents on sale.
SHCEGLOV: - Further!
SEREZHA: - Put in boxes, and on a carriage, I have found it on a dustbin, home. Here packed up in a shed... Same it is not forbidden.
ALICE; - Now you it... Will arrest?
SHCEGLOV: - Is not present, I to you will stick a mouth!
ALICE; - And what I? I of anything...
SHCEGLOV: - Boxes where took? Well, these, under manure.
SEREZHA; - Yes there behind shop them know how many rolls? They will unpack equipment and is thrown out.
SHCEGLOV: - Further.
SEREZHA; - Shooting Has begun.
SHCEGLOV: - And you?
SEREZHA; - Has escaped.
ALICE; - The Plaster, whether that?
SHCEGLOV: - That?
ALICE; - Well, a mouth will stick...
SHCEGLOV: - One more word and we will finish our conversation in a bull-pen of the nearest police station! Clearly?
ALICE; - Yes.
SHCEGLOV: - we Will continue... So, you have escaped also all have thrown?
SEREZHA; - All.
SHCEGLOV: - Think. I do not hurry you, it is very important. Perhaps you had something in hands?
SEREZHA; - Yes, precisely. I have seized one box.
SHCEGLOV: - What for?
SEREZHA; - I do not know... Was frightened.
SHCEGLOV: - it is good. Where then you of its affairs?
SEREZHA; - I do not remember... And! Here rolls, in a court yard. And in what business actually?
SHCEGLOV: - Well, we will put end. You there were together. I precisely know it...
ALICE; - Whence you know, what together?

SHCEGLOV: - Yes do not take in head to run! You hear? It will be stunned... Эх, there was no I in this area, how many it? Well, years five and you have a look, what private residences понастроили. And, Seredinkina? Yes, during my time we did not select at the nights manure. And it is not terrible, шарашиться? And?
ALICE; - It is terrible...
SHCEGLOV: - Hunting more than bondage...

The ear ring comes back with a box.

SEREZHA; - Here, that.
SHCEGLOV: - So, you speak did not open?
SEREZHA; - Is not present.
SHCEGLOV: - Well, that's all, boys. That's all. As - that I on another represented the last business. It after all the last at me business. Now on pension to weed beds...

SHCEGLOV bends to a box on a floor...

SHCEGLOV: - Fur-trees...
ALICE; - That with you?
SHCEGLOV: - Here... It... I also was afraid... The Radiculitis, boys...
SEREZHA; - That?
ALICE; - To you it is bad?
SHCEGLOV: - Well, ridiculously... I know... Where... To me... Here... To lean …
ALICE; - Perhaps to us... Perhaps to call in militia? Yours that have arrived?
SEREZHA; - TH now!
SHCEGLOV: - Stand, where?! Throw phone! Throw, I have told. It is impossible! You that? It is impossible... A shame... Has gone on detention... And a radiculitis... It is impossible... To me...
SEREZHA; - Can to you of what tablets?
SHCEGLOV: - to Lie down to me. For five minutes. A little bit... And?
ALICE; - it is correct... Here here. A raincoat give...
SEREZHA; - is more cautious... And so. A pillow.

Ear ring and Alice stack Shceglova.

SHCEGLOV: - Not that is nasty that will laugh... It I have got used... And that an occasion I will give, that on pension...
SEREZHA; - You said that this your last business...
ALICE; - Give your boots we will remove.
SHCEGLOV: - whether it is not enough that I spoke... You that think... The pension is a resort? Can still I will persuade to leave, and learn that I here as...
ALICE; - The First-aid set in this house is?
SEREZHA; - I do not know...
ALICE: - There Should be medicines! Well, you treated for what небудь?
SHCEGLOV: - it is necessary Nothing! Now I. I will rest in bed heels of minutes...
ALICE; - Well though what нибудь tablets in the house are?
SEREZHA; - And! Has recollected! Now...

SEREZHA escapes behind the first-aid set.

SHCEGLOV: - it is not necessary. I will rest in bed... A little and normally. And home. A foolish, any situation... Here, lines, has managed really.
ALICE; - You the adult person, and behave, as the child. Well, where you in such condition? How you home will reach? You should lie down. Know, I to you will tell, time so left, at our neigbour too so was. In the same way. And so it in such condition bent, took from a shop where it sat, too tracked down all. About, you do not know it. Such harmful and tiresome, but all the same it have carried away. Though also it was necessary to employ loaders. But not specially, of course, and as someone drove to the next entrance also they things brought, and here them and have employed... Represent?
SHCEGLOV; - Well and talker you, Seredinkina...
ALICE; - Aha. It on me finds. But can to you from me is easier. It can you distracts. Here me distracts. Me even on inoculations when so I here simply would like that somebody frayed, that... Understand?

The end of the second action
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The third action
SHCEGLOV: : - Listen... You in God trust?
ALICE: - That, painfully very much, yes? I trust... Only it at me the. Personal. And what?
SHCEGLOV:: - And I was not present...
ALICE: - And to that you smile? Understand, I so do not understand it, when it... Well, the general that-whether. Well, всехний. 
SHCEGLOV:: - it is ridiculous... Even God personal.

The ear ring comes back with the first-aid set.

SEREZHA; - Here it! The first-aid set! I remember, saw somewhere... It has appeared in a locker, for some reason.
ALICE; - So, now we will look... What here at us? Well to you banks to put... I just have mastered recently technology. In! A thermometer!
SHCEGLOV: - What else to hell, banks? What thermometer? Stop these daughters - mothers!
ALICE: - The Thermometer always put. What for you beat off...
SEREZHA; - to you it is impossible to move, and you swear. Банок precisely is not present. I when caught a cold, mum took from the neigbour.

Put Shceglov a thermometer.

SHCEGLOV:: - Listen, Serezha... Open a box. I wish to look.
ALICE: - Here in red packing should be analginum... Only it is written In English.

The SEREZHA opens a box. There money.

SHCEGLOV: - Well - well... All is true... They.
SEREZHA; - Never saw so much money at once...
ALICE; - About! This all dollars?
SEREZHA: - Still! Even somehow... br-r-r!
SHCEGLOV: - you Do of me the invalid... Seredinkina. All the same muck these medicines. Still it is not known from what people has died more. From illnesses or from mixtures... Fie! That it for... Fie!
ALICE;-... Grumbles and grumbles... Eat! Stop! I to you have told from red packing, and you from dark blue! Spit out! I at all do not know it that... Whether, ba-ral-gin any, whether in general muck any...
SEREZHA: - you Will poison the person...
SHCEGLOV: - Fie! And that I... Fie! I feel! Br-r! Bitter! Generally I the colour-blind person.
ALICE; - And it as?
SEREZHA: - Well it when colours do not distinguish, yes? Fur-trees, yes they here all in large denominations...
ALICE; - Can it is valid to you home call? To warn the wife? What is your phone number?
SHCEGLOV: - it is not necessary to Call. Will be frightened. Itself I will reach. Оклемаюсь a little also I will reach. And even so already... I feel in any it... Performance. In Shakespeare.
ALICE ; - Unless it was possible for you in through chilled condition! The downpour what was, and you searched for a notebook. Yes at you temperature!
SHCEGLOV: - In vain I have released the car. What is the time?
SEREZHA; - the Beginning of the sixth.
SHCEGLOV: - That, Seredinkina you look so? Yes, old to be opposite. And it is boring.
ALICE; - Can call your wife all the same? We will politely explain to it.
SHCEGLOV: - In general here what business... Wives at me are not present. So to call there is nobody. Be the friend, Serega - at me a cigarette there, in a raincoat pocket...
ALICE; - You said that there is a wife.
SHCEGLOV: - whether it is not enough that I spoke. Well, was... And then, at my age not to have the wife is already somehow... Whether it is awkward that. Inconveniently somehow.
SEREZHA; - Yes they размокли absolutely.
SHCEGLOV: - It is a pity... Has put here in what, boys... The matter is that... Try to understand me because it very important. At you the daddy does not smoke?
SEREZHA; - Is not present. I will throw out them?
SHCEGLOV: - Yes. Throw out. On what I have stopped... Yes. All has changed, boys. The world was changed. I am not in time. I cease to understand logic, causally - investigatory communications of acts. For my trade it is death. All the same that the armless pianist. Two geeks have beaten the woman. Also have not plundered. I do not understand! Not addicts. Simply so beat. Some are proud that take a bribe. I do not understand. Here a nickname to me a distance... Iron Felix, for that that bribes I do not take. And on pension...
SEREZHA; - Also have a rest to itself...
ALICE; - Who is Felix?
SHCEGLOV: - Was such... The chekist.
ALICE : - And the chekist it who?
SEREZHA: - Well you have become attached to the person?
SHCEGLOV: - Were such... Very serious people... On what it I? And so have typed, you understand, from faculty of law boys - it seems to them that young is better can. Here also it was necessary to creep behind them there, at bank, to clean... Therefore nobody knows about your notebook. There is no it in the report. It would be desirable milksops to wipe a nose at last. Beautifully it would be desirable to leave. Foppery, certainly... And the watchman in the same bank. And here... Does not smoke, you speak, your daddy?
SEREZHA; - Smoked Earlier, and has then thrown...
АЛИСА; - At your age to smoke very harmfully.
SHCEGLOV: - At my age, Seredinkina to live very harmfully. I lie here, as... A slug. Here to laughter will be on all management - if learn.
SEREZHA; - Do not learn.
ALICE; - We will not tell.
SHCEGLOV: - Yes business after all not in it is that I know. From yourself you will not hide. It can't be helped - an old age... And so it has turned out that has saved nothing. All work, work, be it... All was thought, well here one more business, one more, last, and I will live then. Yes, no, I say lies... I did not think so. I can and worked not to think. Also it was possible, while health was, while is younger... And here... Time to sum up. Pension - pennies. To smoke, here wished to throw, and that has not turned out. Did not marry too more... Children? Too somehow... All seemed that it never late... I do not know as well as tell... For forty years of service I of a penny broken did not take also all it know. All! Also laugh... Therefore to me will believe. To another would not believe, and to me will believe. If I will tell that money has not found. That has gone on the wrong track. After all to disorganise business - time to spit, without this notebook. It does not know unless only the layman. If all affairs are finished.  All right, not about that speech now. Well, will laugh unless in management... Will tell that in vain in the rain crept, well and will lower business on brakes. And here I... I wish you to ask from you of the permission... SEREZHA can there though one dry? And? Where you have thrown out a pack? Give...

The ear ring returns cigarettes to Shceglov.

SHCEGLOV: - And you tell all размокли! And it that? Here... If still vodka hundred gramme. And?

Shceglov lights...

ALICE: - As I have not guessed at once! Correctly! It should be warmed up from within!
SEREZHA: - And that... Without problems.

The ear ring takes alcohol, a wine-glass from a bar.

SHCEGLOV: - Here this medicine!
ALICE: - Only it is not a lot of!
SEREZHA: - You is more visible...

SHCEGLOV drinks and leaves a bottle at itself.

ALICE: - All me bring up! Houses bring up, also here!
SHCEGLOV: - Here, quite another matter. Do not rustle, Seredinkina... On what I? Yes. I wish to ask from you of the permission... To put it briefly, is shorter that... That... Uh!

SHCEGLOV pours, drinks.

SHCEGLOV :- In general so! I suggest to divide these of six hundred thousand into three equal parts - on two hundred thousand on a nose. To divide, and anybody about it never learns.
SEREZHA; - Are you... Joke?
ALICE; - How to divide, when... They...
SHCEGLOV: - I why tell it? For this purpose, that you understood me and have not done nonsenses. Clearly? When you fairly drudge forty years to offer the such... Such not that that is not simple, and in general... Therefore I need your permission. In the years I cannot be the dishonest person any more. I have already got used to myself fair. Clearly I speak? I have got used to that the thief should be imprisoned. I already needed to smoke the sky, at most, years twelve...
ALICE; - Well, what you such speak?
SHCEGLOV: - Throw, Seredinkina, these... Grimaces. To me remains years twelve, and to you of all years on twelve. To you to live. To you to establish the laws, the usages. And so, if on yours... If in your modern world, in your future world, that I to you have suggested to divide this money, it on conscience, it is fair... That we divide and that will do. Well, and if you tell to me that in your world to take this money as disgracefully, as before, if will tell that has changed nothing that I correctly arrived, when did not take bribes... Understand? If that was fair earlier, remains and now fair - we will record money and tomorrow I will hand over them in management on receipt. And without consequences...
SEREZHA; - You it is serious?
ALICE; - Is from temperature, I know.
SHCEGLOV: - To hell temperature. I, what, difficult explain? Here you grow up and will recollect this case. Also what will speak? If not that old fool... Yes-yes! And will speak, I know... The old fool who has survived from mind! If not that old fool, at us a great lot of money is. And me it is insulting... I Can really all life was the fool? And all my life... Be up the spout? Here I also want that you have made the decision. But at once do not answer. Think. I want that you have made the weighed decision.
SEREZHA; - You it is serious?
SHCEGLOV: - Has taken... Kitchen there? And you here think. You laymans. You need to weigh all carefully. Not to be mistaken. I a small bottle will take, you not against? I will get warm...

SHCEGLOV leaves on kitchen.

ALICE; - You... Its certificate well looked?
EAR RING; - Yes you that?! There would be a gangster with you! Ur. I all the same, all the same I knew that, something such with me to happen. Here you will not believe, and I knew! Ur! But, that at once it is so much money! Вау!
ALICE; - Is not present. So does not happen.
SEREZHA; - And you on its place?! You know what now pensions? And on this money will buy the house, a wheelbarrow and all is fair! There and then any deceit. Money is already stolen, and we here at anything. He has earned this money for all life, so after all? And bank? Yes you know how many at it these grandmas? My daddy took the credit so told how they tear up percent!
ALICE; - At me in a head as that... Has mixed u

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