A Call to Pierre

SERVANT
A letter from Marya Dmitryevna asking you to come and visit her
On a matter of great importance
Relating to Andrey Bolkonsky and his betrothed
PIERRE
What?
What can they want with me?
MARYA D.
Pierre, old friend I’m sorry it’s late
I’m sorry I haven’t seen you about
Where have you been?
Where have you been?
PIERRE
I have been studying
MARYA D.
Pierre old friend, we need your help
Pierre old friend: the family name!
We need your help
We need your help
There’s ruin at the door
PIERRE
Marya?
MARYA D.
Natasha has let down the family
PIERRE
What?
MARYA D.
Natasha has broken with Andrey
PIERRE
What?
MARYA D.
Natasha has tried to elope
PIERRE
What?
MARYA D.
Natasha and Anatole Kuragin!
PIERRE
What?!
MARYA D.
We need your help
We need your help
There’s ruin at the door
PIERRE
Natasha, that charming girl?
I can’t believe my ears
So I am not the only man
Chained to a bad woman
And Anatole, that stupid child
They’ll lock him up for years
For Anatole is a married man!
MARYA D.
Married? He’s married?
PIERRE
Yes
MARYA D.
Oh wait ’til I tell her
PIERRE
Poor Andrey
MARYA D.
And when Andrey comes home
He will challenge Anatole to a duel
And get himself killed
And all will be ruined
You must go see your brother-in-law
And tell him that he must leave Moscow
And not dare to let me set my eyes on him again
PIERRE
At once