While Stepan rants about Lomov, he expresses his shock that "this fool dares to make you (Natalya) a proposal of marriage!"
Natalya then realizes that Lomov wanted to marry her and immediately starts into hysterics (ungovernable emotional excess), begging for her father to bring him back.
He does, and Natalia and Ivan get into a second big argument, this time about the superiority of their respective hunting dogs, Guess and Squeezer.
[2] Chekhov himself thought farces were not really worth much as literature; before its success, he called The Proposal a "wretched, boring, vulgar little skit".
In 1976, an Indonesian movie director/ writer made an adaptation titled "Pinangan", which was cast by Benyamin Sueb, a comedian, and Rima Melati, a young actress.