- Boris: I have no desire to see you, until I've had time to consider what to do with you.
- Katherine: Let him out.
- Boris: You are entirely without shame.
- Katherine: I have nothing to be ashamed of.
- Boris: Nothing to be ashamed of?... Do you have any idea of the damage that you're capable of bringing upon this family? You have failed miserably in all of your marital duties, more specifically, to provide your husband with a legitimate heir.
- Katherine: Where is your son? Where is he?... He has made that impossible.
- Alexander: So... you have become a whore in my absence, Katherine... You think me to be stupid, perhaps... But perhaps you had no idea that your whoring had been noticed... You seem surprised... And surprised that the news of you opening your legs and your cunt for any worthless dog should have traveled across the county and reached my ears, but then you opened your legs so very wide, Katherine... And you've acted so very shamelessly and so very stupidly. And you've begun to smell, Katherine... You've gotten so fat - and foul-smelling, it was inevitable that the whole county would hear of your behaviour. My father bought you - along with a piece of land not fit enough for a cow to graze upon. I do not like being talked about, Madame. I do not like being laughed at. I do not like owning a whore!
- Boris: Do you not think it necessary to keep an account of what happens to my property in this household? All my property! Might I assume you drank it.
- Anna: No, sir.
- Boris: And yet you have no other explanation.
- Anna: No, sir.
- Boris: Get down.
- Anna: Sir?
- Boris: On your hands and knees. You behave like an animal and I'll treat you like an animal. Now, get out!
- Boris: You've had enough time to contemplate, I hope, and to take the opportunity to meditate upon your duties as a *wife*, Katherine, in this household above anything else.
- Boris: I leave for London this morning. You'll be on your own for awhile. Perhaps you'll find that your energy is restored after a little of your own company. And when your husband returns, you can resume your duties with more rigor, Madame.