Can I help him in that?
He says you are the only person that can.
Then I must try.
Yes, you really must, madam.
[She goes down by the path to the hotel.
[In a little while PROFESSOR RUBEK comes down to IRENE, but stops
with the brook between them.
[After a short pause.] She—the other one—said that you had been waiting for me.
I have waited for you year after year—without myself knowing it.
I could not come to you, Arnold. I was lying down there, sleeping the long, deep, dreamful sleep.
But now you have awakened, Irene!
[Shakes her head.] I have the heavy, deep sleep still in my eyes.