Professor Rubek.
I am beginning now to find it a trifle long. [Yawning.] Now and then, you know.
Maia.
[Returning to her place.] I shall not bore you any longer.
[She resumes her seat, takes up the newspaper, and begins turning over the leaves. Silence on both sides.
Professor Rubek.
[Leaning on his elbows across the table, and looking at her teasingly.] Is the Frau Professor offended?
Maia.
[Coldly, without looking up.] No, not at all.
[Visitors to the baths, most of them ladies, begin to pass, singly and in groups, through the park from the right, and out to the left.