AMADEUS
Oh, is that it?
MARIE
And that's Max—and he with the hoop is Mauritz.
AMADEUS
So that's a hoop?... I took it for one of those cabins used by the watchmen along the railroad. The background comes out much better. The landscape actually looks as if steeped in Summer and stillness.... (Brief pause)
MARIE
It was really nice. The deep shadows of the woods right back of the house, and that view of the mountain peaks—oh, marvelous! And then the seclusion.... It's too bad that you never had a look at that darling place. We thought ... Cecilia did expect you after all....
AMADEUS (has risen and is walking to and fro)
I don't believe it.... And it didn't prove feasible, for that matter. The pull of the South was still on me.