Scene II.
The time and place and scene just as before.
From left to right there enters on the scene
Quite simultaneously a man and woman.
Each reads a book while walking, so absorbed
That they well-nigh collide with one another.
He begs her pardon which, of course, she grants.
He asks her if they have not met before,
Her face seems so familiar, and she says:
Perhaps he saw her somewhere at a lecture.