The proposal. There is a famous Russian play called "The proposal" by Anton Chekhov. I'll try to describe it shortly or in other words give you the highlights. The action took place in late nineteenth century. The main characters are a landlord Chubukov, his daughter Natasha and their neighbor Lomov. One day Lomov came in Chubukov's house wearing very official dress. He was very excited and rather nervous. Chubukov was very surprised to see him in that way and he asked him what had been the purpose of his visit. But Lomov was so excited that he could hardly say a word. At first Chubukov thought that Lomov had come to borrow some money since he had done that before. But it turned out that Lomov came to make a proposal to Chubukov's daughter. Chubukov was very happy to hear it and immediately went to call his daughter. When Lomov was left alone in the room he started thinking about his future wife and his future marriage. He thought that she was a good choice for him. She was a good housekeeper, well-educated and not bad-looking. And he was already 35 years old and he was afraid of that if he wouldn't marry someone in near future then he wouldn't marry anyone at all. Then Chubukov's daughter came in and they started to talk to each other. It seemed that Chubukov hadn't told her the purpose of Lomov's visit since she was pretty calm. And the problem was that Lomov was very frightened of the probability of being turned down. So he didn't hurry to tell her about his intentions and they talked to each other for a while on different subjects. Soon they came across a disputable subject about their lands. There was a land that both of them thought to be theirs. It was called Oxen Meadows. Lomov insisted that this land had belonged to his family for many years. He told her a story according to which some of his late relatives had let the Chubukov's peasants to work on this land and in return they had to bake bricks for Lomov's family. But Natasha didn't agree with him. In fact, she even didn't want to listen to his explanations. Soon their arguing grew into severe quarreling. Chubukov heard loud voices and came in to find out what was the matter. Lomov tried to get support from him in the dispute. But Chubukov's opinion was the same as his daughter's was. Well, it seems that I've reached the limit of 2500 symbols. To be continued :)