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CHARACTERS / ELENA IVANOVNA POPOVA, a landowning little widow, with dimples / on her cheeks / GRIGORY STEPANOVITCH SMIRNOV, a middle-aged landowner / LUKA, Popova's aged footman
[A drawing-room in POPOVA'S house.]