PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Reflecting.] Satow? Satow---?


MAIA.
[Laughing mockingly.] Do you know any one of that name, Rubek? Eh?


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Shaking his head.] No, no one.--Satow? It sounds Russian--or in all
events Slavonic. [To the INSPECTOR.] What language does she speak?


THE INSPECTOR.

When the two ladies talk to each other, it is in a language I cannot
make out at all. But at other times she speaks Norwegian like a
native.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Exclaims with a start.] Norwegian? You are sure you are not
mistaken?


THE INSPECTOR.