XXXVIII + 

No answer all that day was borne. + 

Another passed; ’twas just the same. + 

Pale as a ghost and dressed since morn + 

Tattiana waits. No answer came! + 

Olga’s admirer came that day: + 

“Tell me, why doth your comrade stay?” + 

The hostess doth interrogate: + 

“He hath neglected us of late.”⁠— + 

Tattiana blushed, her heart beat quick⁠— + 

“He promised here this day to ride,” + 

Lenski unto the dame replied, + 

“The post hath kept him, it is like.” + 

Shamefaced, Tattiana downward looked + 

As if he cruelly had joked! + 