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.