SALA (enters)
Good morning, Johanna.
JOHANNA (rises, goes to meet him, and draws him close to herself) Are you coming for the last time?
SALA
For the last time? What an idea! There has not been the slightest change in our arrangements. To-day is the seventh of October, and the ship will leave Genoa on the twenty-sixth of November.
JOHANNA
Some day you will suddenly have disappeared. And I shall be standing by the garden door, and nobody will come to open it.
SALA
But that sort of thing is not needed between us two.
JOHANNA