Yes, that will be much better. But do you keep your mother’s letters—you haven’t so many mementos of her.
[He hands Asta the portfolio. She takes it, and lays it on the chair under her outdoor things. Rita comes into the room again.
Rita.
Ugh! I feel as if that horrible old woman had brought a sort of graveyard smell with her.
Allmers.
Yes, she was rather horrible.
Rita.
I felt almost sick while she was in the room.
Allmers.
However, I can very well understand the sort of spellbound fascination that she talked about. The loneliness of the mountain-peaks and of the great waste places has something of the same magic about it.