What do the following lines from anton chekhov's the proposal suggest about the setting of the play?

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 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?