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