[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.