Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

We just get along somehow, my angel, thanks to your prayers, and so on. Sit down, please do... Now, you know, you shouldn’t forget all about your neighbors, my darling. My dear fellow, why are you so formal in your get-up! Evening dress, gloves, and so on. Can you be going anywhere, my treasure?

1. Who speaks these lines and to whom?
2. Do you think Chubukov means all the nice words he speaks?
3. Find a word from the passage which means the same as ‘sweetheart’