Is the soup warm? My tongue is glued to the roof of my mouth.
SOPHY (takes a plate and spoon from the closet, goes to the stove where she pours out the soup).
If he should look into the room! What I ask, I ask only in anxiety to have him forget about Mary.
[She puts the soup before the FORESTER on the table to the right; listens.]
Isn't there a noise in the room?
[Walks about the FORESTER'S chair, so as to distract him.]
Ulrich, don't you think that Robert could still restore the old friendly relations?
[FORESTER makes a movement.]
SOPHY.
Why do you start so?