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[Nods.] --on the subject of our marriage, yes. It was no easy matter for you, Maia.
MAIA.
[Continuing unruffled.] --and agreed that I was to go abroad with you, and live there for good and all--and enjoy myself.--Do you remember what you promised me that day?
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[Shaking his head.] No, I can't say that I do. Well, what did I promise?
MAIA.
You said you would take me up to a high mountain and show me all the glory of the world.
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[With a slight start.] Did I promise you that, too?
MAIA.
Me too? Who else, pray?
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[Indifferently.] No, no, I only meant did I promise to show you--?
MAIA. --all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
That is sort of figure of speech that I was in the habit of using once upon a time.
MAIA.
Only a figure of speech?
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
Yes, a schoolboy phrase--the sort of thing I used to say when I wanted to lure the neighbours' children out to play with me, in the woods and on the mountains.
MAIA.
[Looking hard at him.] Perhaps you only wanted to lure me out to play, as well?
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[Pa.s.sing it off as a jest.] Well, has it not been a tolerable amusing game, Maia?
MAIA.
[Coldly.] I did not go with you only to play.
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
No, no, I daresay not.
MAIA.
And you never took me up with you to any high mountain, or showed me--
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[With irritation.] --all the glory of the world? No, I did not. For, let me tell you something: you are not really born to be a mountain-climber, little Maia.
MAIA.
[Trying to control herself.] Yet at one time you seemed to think I was.
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
Four or five years ago, yes. [Stretching himself in his chair.] Four or five years--it's a long, long time, Maia.
MAIA.
[Looking at him with a bitter expression.] Has the time seemed so very long to you, Rubek?
PROFESSOR RUBEK.
I am beginning now to find it a trifle long. [Yawning.] Now and then, you know.
