Maia.
Me too? Who else, pray?
Professor Rubek.
[Indifferently.] No, no, I only meant did I promise to show you——?
Maia.
—all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
Professor Rubek.
That is a sort of figure of speech that I was in the habit of using once upon a time.
Maia.
Only a figure of speech?