sentences:  She complains to her grandfather (the Chorąży) that she does not feel at home in the artificial world of the "salon", a fake world full of unnatural foreign customs and empty laughter ("O mój dziaduniu" arietta).Bronia is unhappily in love with a neighbour from the countryside, the young nobleman Kazimierz who is also present in this house.He in turn loves the Countess.