Come on, Helene! We've got lots to do if we want to leave for the country. Oh Pierre, it's...

Pierre Bezukhov:
[opens the bedroom drapes, while his spoiled wife sleeps on]
Come on, Helene! We've got lots to do if we want to leave for the country.
Helene Kuragina:
[very sleepy]
Oh Pierre, it's so early!
[he kisses her, and she gets a crafty look on her face]

Helene Kuragina:
Besides, it's so boring in the country.
Pierre Bezukhov:
[Seriously]
I'm sorry, my dear, but I promised those peasants I'd come and see them. They need a new hospital, and a new school, and many other things besides.
Helene Kuragina:
[very spoiled]
Well they can starve just as well without a school, and they can die just as well without a hospital!
[catches herself, changes her tune]

Helene Kuragina:
Pierre, why don't you go on without me? You can do what you have to do, and I'll come visit you in a few months time.
[Slyly]

Helene Kuragina:
You'll appreciate me so much more after a few months of sleeping alone.