ULFHEIM.

[Laughs scornfully.] That stuff there--is that what you call food for
human beings! Milk and water and soft, clammy bread. Ah, you should
see my comrades feeding. Should you like to see it?


MAIA.

[Smiling across to the PROFESSOR and rising.] Yes, very much.


ULFHEIM.

[Also rising.] Spoken like a woman of spirit, madam! Come with me,
then! They swallow whole great thumping meat-bones--gulp them up and
then gulp them down again. Oh, it's a regular treat to see them.
Come along and I'll show you--and while we're about it, we can talk
over this trip to the mountains---

[He goes out by the corner of the hotel, MAIA following him.

[Almost at the same moment the STRANGE LADY comes out of the
pavilion and seats herself at the table.

[The LADY raises her glass of milk and is about to drink, but
stops and looks across at RUBEK with vacant, expressionless
eyes.