That's not a science for the nobility.

All a noble has to do is to say, 'Drive me to such a place!' and you're driven whithersoever you wish.

Believe me, my good sir, everything that Mitrofan does not know is nonsense." Uncle Starodum makes acquaintance with Milon, whose good qualities he has learned through an old friend, and betroths him to Sophia.

Mrs.
Simpleton, on learning of this, and that Starodum and Sophia are to set out for Moscow early the next morning, arranges to have Mitrofan abduct Sophia at a still earlier hour, and marry her.

Sophia escapes; Mrs.
Simpleton raves and threatens to beat to death her servants who have failed to carry out her plan.