As if a cloud of weeping hung over the village, torn, as if human grief broke through the Danube dam - such was the weeping." In a sudden rush, Ivan began to dance with the wife of the last dance, from which "people got stuck," in which he poured out all the despair of farewell forever. The sons forcibly took their parents out of the house, but Ivan continued to dance outside by inertia, and Ivaniha (Ivan's wife) grabbed the threshold with her hands and told: "how deep she trampled that threshold out."