"No one is here."
"Perhaps down there, in the hothouses."
"There is not a sound. Hark!"
"What a strange silence! It is ecstasy."
"We might hear the falling of a leaf."
"And the keeper?"
"He has gone to meet some other visitor."
"Does anyone ever come here?"
"The other day Richard Wagner came here with Daniela von Bülow."
"Ah, yes, the niece of the Countess Agoult, of 'Daniel Stern.'"