[Harshly.] To take you by force if necessary--for it's a matter of
life and death here. Now, you know it. [To MAIA.] Come, then--and
don't fear to trust yourself in your comrade's hands.


MAIA.

[Clinging to him.] Oh, how I shall rejoice and sing, if I get down
with a whole skin!


ULFHEIM.

[Begins the descent and calls to the others.] You'll wait, then, in
the hut, till the men come with ropes, and fetch you away.

[ULFHEIM, with MAIA in his arms, clambers rapidly but warily down
the precipice.


IRENE.

[Looks for some time at PROFESSOR RUBEK with terror-stricken eyes.]
Did you hear that, Arnold?--men are coming up to fetch me away! Many
men will come up here---


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Do not be alarmed, Irene!