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Trofimov and Mrs. Ranevsky have been left alone together and both of them are in an agitated mood. Trofimov is annoyed by Mrs. Ranevsky’s older daughter, Varya, poking her nose into his private affairs, and Mrs. Ranevsky urges him not to tease or annoy her daughter. Mrs. Ranevsky is torn between her grief for her deceased son and fond memories of the old estate, and her current, complicated personal situation with an abusive lover in Paris. Trofimov does not understand her life decisions and
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LUBOV. Don’t tease her, Peter, you see that she’s quite unhappy without that.
TROFIMOV. She takes too much on herself, she keeps on interfering in other people’s business. The whole summer she’s given no peace to me or to Anya, she’s afraid we’ll have a romance all to ourselves. What has it to do with her? As if I’d ever given her grounds to believe I’d stoop to such
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