- Faina: I'm so lonely. Am I here or I am not, not much of a difference. Only Kolya will notice my absence. Yet, after being upset for a little while, he will find another woman.
- Viktor Iliazarovich: Alya, what are you doing here?
- Alya: I was looking for you.
- Viktor Iliazarovich: Why?
- Alya: I was standing next to the window, watching how you were walking out of the door, how you began walking away, going somewhere far away. And suddenly, a thought came to my mind: "What if he's not coming back... what if something would happen to you as to our little girl". So I went after you. In case if something would happen. To protect you. I don't want to repeat the same mistake twice. Are you mine?
- Viktor Iliazarovich: Of course, I'm yours.
- Alya: Now that you're sitting next to me, I'm almost happy. I never loved you so much as now. Did you?
- Investigator Nikolai: Hello.
- Faina: Were you looking for me?
- Investigator Nikolai: Yes...
- Faina: What do you need?
- Investigator Nikolai: Nothing. I just wanted to see you.
- Faina: Oh... Well, okay. I have to go now. Bye.
- Investigator Nikolai: Bye.
- Faina: You never call her by her name.
- Professor Mikhail Konstantinovich: Well, how can she have a name, if she is everything?
- Portrait: Of all the insane, she's probably the best!
- Aglaya: Please, promise me! I beg you, just promise me something good! Will I always be lonely, unloved and unhappy? Men always leaving me, their loved one for their unloved wives. Please, please, please!