No, I have had it pulled down long ago. And I have built myself a
great, handsome, comfortable villa on the site--with a park around
it. It is there that we-- [Stops and corrects himself.] --there that
I usually live during the summer.


IRENE.

[Mastering herself.] So you and--and the other one live out there now?


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[With a touch of defiance.] Yes. When my wife and I are not
travelling--as we are this year.


IRENE.

[Looking far before her.] Life was beautiful, beautiful by the Lake
of Taunitz.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[As though looking back into himself.] And yet, Irene---


IRENE.