And no other models, Arnold?

Professor Rubek.

You were no model to me. You were the fountainhead of my achievement.

Irene.

[Is silent for a short time.] What poems have you made since? In marble I mean. Since the day I left you.

Professor Rubek.

I have made no poems since that day—only frittered away my life in modelling.

Irene.

And that woman, whom you are now living with——?

Professor Rubek.