[With assumed coolness.] At your service. Won’t you come up?
[Professor Rubek climbs right up and holds out his hand to Irene, who also comes right to the top.
Professor Rubek.
[Coldly to Maia.] So you, too, have been all night on the mountain,—as we have?
Maia.
I have been hunting—yes. You gave me permission, you know.
Ulfheim.
[Pointing downward.] Have you come up that path there?
Professor Rubek.
As you saw.