Maia.
Why, you were sound asleep all the time.
Professor Rubek.
Not quite. I noticed how silent it became at all the little roadside stations. I heard the silence—like you, Maia——
Maia.
H’m,—like me, yes.
Professor Rubek.
—and that assured me that we had crossed the frontier—that we were really at home. For the train stopped at all the little stations—although there was nothing doing at all.
Maia.
Then why did it stop—though there was nothing to be done?