PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Decisively.] There had to be a distance between us---


IRENE.

Was it absolutely necessary, Arnold?


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Continuing.] Do you remember what you answered when I asked if you
would go with me out into the wide world?


IRENE.

I held up three fingers in the air and swore that I would go with you
to the world's end and to the end of life. And that I would serve you
in all things---


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

As the model for my art---


IRENE.