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Maia.
[With assumed coolness.] At your service. Won't you come up? [Professor Rubek climbs right up and holds out his hand to Irene, who also comes right to the top.
Professor Rubek.
[Coldly to Maia.] So you, too, have been all night on the mountain,—as we have?
Maia.
I have been hunting—yes. You gave me permission, you know.
Ulfheim.
[Pointing downward.] Have you come up that path there?
Professor Rubek.
As you saw.
Ulfheim.
And the strange lady too?
Professor Rubek.
Yes, of course. [With a glance at Maia.] Henceforth the strange lady and I do not intend our ways to part.
Ulfheim.
Don't you know, then, that it is a deadly dangerous way you have come?
