Professor Rubek.
[With eager expectation.] Are you going up there?
Irene.
Have you the courage to meet me once again?
Professor Rubek.
[Struggling with himself, uncertainly.] If we could—oh, if only we could!
Irene.
Why can we not do what we will? [Looks at him and whispers beseechingly with folded hands.] Come, come, Arnold! Oh, come up to me!
[Maia enters, glowing with pleasure, from behind the hotel, and goes quickly up to the table where they were previously sitting.]
Maia.
[Still at the corner of the hotel, without looking around.] Oh, you may say what you please, Rubek, but—[Stops, as she catches sight of Irene]—Oh, I beg your pardon—I see you have made an acquaintance.
Professor Rubek.
[Curtly.] Renewed an acquaintance. [Rises.] What was it you wanted with me?
