The Mill Pool

Characters

• Mayrush — The miller’s wife: Sweeps the mill house and weighs out flour like her husband’s hired hand.
• Tarai Vaisa — Miller who rents the Nersha mill: Orders a feast made before he leaves, then rows home with a quarter bottle of vodka.
• The woman teacher — Schoolmistress in the village of Nersha: Tells Mayrush the law now stands with her and offers her work at the school.
• Oklina — Vaisa’s lover: Presses Vaisa to drive his wife out and promises to move in herself.
• Sanka — Oklina’s man: Beetle-browed, with eyes like lead beads, he leers at the miller’s wife.
• Mayrush’s father — The father who married his daughter to the miller: Shoves his returning daughter out the door: if you are leaving, go where you like.