Kroll.

No, no. It is you I want to speak to,—quite alone.

Rebecca.

Then we had better not lose time. Sit down, Rector.

[She sits in the easy-chair by the window. Rector Kroll sits on a chair beside her.

Kroll.

Miss West—you can scarcely imagine how deeply and painfully I have taken this to heart—this change in Johannes Rosmer.

Rebecca.

We expected it would be so—at first.

Kroll.