PLS HELP, IF I GET THIS BAD I LOSE THE YEAR, AND LOSE MY FRIENDS, PLS DONT PUT SOMETHING RANDOM Which sentence in this excerpt from Anton Chekhov's The Proposal best reveals the setting of the play? NATALYA STEPANOVNA: Well, there! It's you, and papa said, "Go; there's a merchant come for his goods." How do you do, Ivan Vassilevitch! LOMOV: How do you do, honoured Natalya Stepanovna? NATALYA STEPANOVNA: You must excuse my apron and négligé. . . . we're shelling peas for drying. Why haven't you been here for such a long time? Sit down. [They seat themselves] Won't you have some lunch? LOMOV: No, thank you, I've had some already. NATALYA STEPANOVNA: Then smoke. . . . Here are the matches. . . . The weather is splendid now, but yesterday it was so wet that the workmen didn't do anything all day. How much hay have you stacked? Just think, I felt greedy and had a whole field cut, and now I'm not at all pleased about it because I'm afraid my hay may rot. I ought to have waited a bit. But what's this? Why, you're in evening dress! Well, I never! Are you going to a ball, or what?—though I must say you look better. Tell me, why are you got up like that? LOMOV: [Excited] You see, honoured Natalya Stepanovna . . . the fact is, I've made up my mind to ask you to hear me out. . . . Of course you'll be surprised and perhaps even angry, but a . . . [Aside] It's awfully cold!