:06:02
That you remembered my words so well.
They must have made an impression on you.
:06:06
Of course. I note down
everything you say.
:06:10
What's the matter with Levin today? Why
doesn't he launch into one of his tirades?
:06:14
Please.
:06:16
Constantine Dmitrich.
:06:18
How's it that at home in our village of
Kaluga, the peasants have spent their all
:06:22
on drink and now pay us nothing?
:06:25
What is the meaning of that?
:06:26
You're always so full of praise
for peasants.
:06:30
Do let me introduce you.
:06:33
Constantine Dmitrich Levin,
:06:36
Count Alexei Kirillovich
Vronsky.
:06:38
Constantine Dmitrich despises
and hates town and us townspeople.
:06:43
Do you live in the country
all year round?
:06:46
I should think it must be
rather dull in winter.
:06:48
Not at all if one has work
to do. Besides, you can't...
:06:51
-be dull in your own company.
-l like the country.
:06:55
I'd be bored to tears.
:06:56
One simply can't live without
sophisticated conversation.
:06:59
Countess Nordston was telling me
:07:01
about a demonstration of table
rapping and spiritualism she attended.
:07:06
Oh, that would be fascinating.
:07:08
I've never seen anything
supernatural.
:07:09
Do you believe in spirits,
Constantine Dmitrich?
:07:12
Why'd you ask me that? You know
perfectly well what my answer will be.
:07:15
But I want to hear you opinion.
:07:17
My opinion's that table rapping
merely proves
:07:20
that the so-called educated classes
are no better than the peasants.
:07:22
They, too, believe in the evil eyes
and spirits.
:07:24
But I've witnessed it myself.
:07:26
But don't you think
there's something in it?
:07:30
If we admit to the existence
of electricity
:07:34
of which we know nothing,
:07:37
Why shouldn't there exist
some new forces yet unknown to us?
:07:40
Because with electricity when
you rub wool and resin together,
:07:42
you invariably produce a
recognizable phenomenon.
:07:46
But with this hocus-pocus...
:07:50
Suppose we try now.
:07:52
Do let us try,
Princess Kitty.