Adene.

Then how did she come?

Rheinhardt.

She came to me herself, suddenly, in London, just as I am starting. She was all pale, with her eyes—she had had some great struggle.

Adene.

Her father!

Rheinhardt.

[Waving down the interruption.] I know not what it was, but it was something. And when she entered at the door, I said, "Here it is come at last; he will be saved!" And he is! [Rises.] There is your material for thinking! And if you do not know what she is, all the time you are unconscious, all the time you are in the dark, there are others who do. [Warming up.] There are others who——

Adene.

Oh, Rheinhardt, let me see her!