[Coldly.] I did not go with you only to play.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

No, no, I daresay not.


MAIA.

And you never took me up with you to any high mountain, or showed me---


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[With irritation.] --all the glory of the world? No, I did not. For,
let me tell you something: you are not really born to be a mountain-
climber, little Maia.


MAIA.

[Trying to control herself.] Yet at one time you seemed to think
I was.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Four or five years ago, yes. [Stretching himself in his chair.] Four