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Maia.
[Approaching.] I am going to put life in the place of all the rest.
Professor Rubek.
[Mockingly.] Aha! so you too are going to do that, little Maia?
Maia.
Yes. And I've made a verse about it, and this is how it goes:
[Sings triumphantly]
I am free! I am free! I am free!
No more life in the prison for me!
I am free as a bird! I am free!
For I believe I have awakened now—at last.
Professor Rubek.
It almost seems so.
Maia.
[Drawing a deep breath.] Oh—how divinely light one feels on waking!
Professor Rubek.
Good-night, Frau Maia—and good luck to
Ulfheim.
[Calls out, interposing.] Hush, hush!—for the devil's sake let's have none of your wizard wishes. Don't you see that we are going out to shoot
