PERSONS
MR. X., an archaeologist, Middle-aged man.
MR. Y., an American traveller, Middle-aged man.
SCENE
(A simply furnished room in a farmhouse. The door and the windows in the background open on a landscape. In the middle of the room stands a big dining-table, covered at one end by books, writing materials, and antiquities; at the other end, by a microscope, insect cases, and specimen jars full of alchohol.)
(On the left side hangs a bookshelf. Otherwise the furniture is that of a well-to-do farmer.)