Maia.
But why, pray? Perhaps because I'm not desperately in love with mooning about up here?
Professor Rubek.
Which of us was it that was absolutely bent on our coming north this summer?
Maia.
I admit, it was I.
Professor Rubek.
It was certainly not I, at any rate.
Maia.
But good heavens, who could have dreamt that everything would have altered so terribly at home here? And in such a short time, too! Why, it is only just four years since I went away
Professor Rubek.
Since you were married, yes.
Maia.
Married? What has that to do with the matter?
Professor Rubek.
[Continuing]—since you became the Frau Professor, and found yourself mistress of a charming home—I beg your pardon—a very handsome house, I ought to say. And a villa on the Lake of Taunitz, just at the point that
