[The Sister of Mercy comes out of the hotel with a tray on which is bread and milk. She places it on the table outside the pavilion, which she enters.
Ulfheim.
[Laughs scornfully.] That stuff there—is that what you call food for human beings! Milk and water and soft, clammy bread. Ah, you should see my comrades feeding. Should you like to see it?
Maia.
[Smiling across to the Professor and rising.] Yes, very much.
Ulfheim.
[Also rising.] Spoken like a woman of spirit, madam! Come with me, then! They swallow whole great thumping meat-bones—gulp them up and then gulp them down again. Oh, it’s a regular treat to see them. Come along and I’ll show you—and while we’re about it, we can talk over this trip to the mountains——
[He goes out by the corner of the hotel, Maia following him.
[Almost at the same moment the Strange Lady comes out of the pavilion and seats herself at the table.
[The Lady raises her glass of milk and is about to drink, but stops and looks across at Rubek with vacant, expressionless eyes.