Where, then?

Maia.

Far beneath. On the lower slopes; in the thickest parts of the forest. Places your ordinary town-folk could never get through——

Professor Rubek.

And you two are going down there to-morrow?

Maia.

[Throwing herself down among the heather.] Yes, so we have arranged.—Or perhaps we may start this evening.—If you have no objection, that’s to say?

Professor Rubek.

I? Far be it from me to——

Maia.