Arkadina sees the parallel with her relationship with Trigorin, but smoothly announces that their relationship is nothing like that in the book. The extract she reads is about a woman who wants to bed a writer and flatters him to get his attention. The three have been reading aloud from a book, and Dorn now carries on reading, until, characteristically, Arkadina takes over. Arkadina carries on, boasting about how spry she is for her age, and how she never leaves the house without being made up. Arkadina says that she feels young, and Masha that she feels old. Dorn answers, “of course”, that Arkadina looks younger. Arkadina begins the scene by standing Masha up next to her and asking Dorn which of them looks younger. Arkadina, Dorn and Masha sit underneath a tree on one side of the lawn. The curtain rises on a croquet lawn, with Sorin's house to the right and the lake to the left.
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