[Urgently.] With me—as in our days of creation. You could open all that is locked up in me. Can you not find it in your heart, Irene?
Irene.
[Shaking her head.] I have no longer the key to you, Arnold.
Professor Rubek.
You have the key! You and you alone possess it! [Beseechingly.] Help me—that I may be able to live my life over again!
Irene.
[Immovable as before.] Empty dreams! Idle—dead dreams. For the life you and I led there is no resurrection.
Professor Rubek.
[Curtly, breaking off.] Then let us go on playing.
Irene.