Ulfheim.
[Begins the descent and calls to the others.] You’ll wait, then, in the hut, till the men come with ropes, and fetch you away.
[Ulfheim, with Maia in his arms, clambers rapidly but warily down the precipice.
Irene.
[Looks for some time at Professor Rubek with terror-stricken eyes.] Did you hear that, Arnold?—men are coming up to fetch me away! Many men will come up here——
Professor Rubek.
Do not be alarmed, Irene!
Irene.
[In growing terror.] And she, the woman in black—she will come too. For she must have missed me long ago. And then she will seize me, Arnold! And put me in the strait-waistcoat. Oh, she has it with her, in her box. I have seen it with my own eyes——
Professor Rubek.