Maia.
One who has stood to you undressed?
Professor Rubek.
That means nothing—nothing for us artists. [With a change of tone.] And then—may I venture to ask—how was I to guess that she was in this country?
Maia.
Oh, you might have seen her name in a Visitors’ List—in one of the newspapers.
Professor Rubek.
But I had no idea of the name she now goes by. I had never heard of any Herr von Satow.
Maia.
[Affecting weariness.] Oh well then, I suppose it must have been for some other reason that you were so set upon this journey.