MAIA.

You said you would take me up to a high mountain and show me all the
glory of the world.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[With a slight start.] Did I promise you that, too?


MAIA.

Me too? Who else, pray?


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Indifferently.] No, no, I only meant did I promise to show you---?


MAIA.

--all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should
be mine, you said.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.