[Completing his thought.] --yet we two let slip all that life and
its beauty.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Softly, urgently.] Does repentance come too late, now?


IRENE.

[Does not answer, but sits silent for a moment; then she points over
the upland.] Look there, Arnold,--now the sun is going down behind
the peaks. See what a red glow the level rays cast over all the
heathery knolls out yonder.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Looks where she is pointing.] It is long since I have seen a sunset
in the mountains.


IRENE.

Or a sunrise?


PROFESSOR RUBEK.