You are unreasonable. [Takes her hand.] Surely one must take the risks——
Vera.
[Interrupting.] Leave go, leave go! You are mad! [He recoils from her.] Your life may well seem precious; you have barely a year of it left!
Adene.
What do you mean?
Vera.
I have watched you day by day. I saw it in your eyes with that glass. There are a dozen symptoms to make it as clear as daylight. You don't feel much yet, but you're going blind, you're going paralysed, you are dying slowly under my eyes. . . . [Adene, incredulous but horror-struck, grasps the back of the chair.] Dr. Rheinhardt knows it. He has seen my notes and watched you. First blind, then paralysed, then dead! Now go if you can; cross the mountains and ruin good men by raking up their old wrongdoings.
Adene.
It can't be true! [Calling out.] Reinhardt, Rheinhardt! Here! Come at once!