PROFESSOR RUBEK.

It was you that said that, Irene, not I.


IRENE.

[Continuing.] --then I had my knife out. I wanted to stab you in the
back with it.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Darkly.] And why did you hold your hand?


IRENE.

Because it flashed upon me with a sudden horror that you were dead
already--long ago.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Dead?


IRENE.