It is a question of what I should do in regard to my present commission.—(He is still speaking as he goes out with Sala)
IRENE
What kind of secrets have those two together? What's going on here anyhow?
JULIAN
Nothing that can be called a secret. That young fellow is also going to join the expedition, I hear. And so they have a lot of things to talk over, of course.
IRENE (who has been following Felix and Sala with her eyes) Julian—it's he.
JULIAN (remains silent)
IRENE
You don't need to answer me. The matter has been in my mind all the time.... The only thing I can't understand is why I haven't discovered it before. It is he.—And he is twenty-three.—And I who actually thought when you drove me away: if only he doesn't kill himself!... And there goes his son.
JULIAN