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Professor Rubek.
[Shaking his head.] No, I can't say that I do. Well, what did I promise?
Maia.
You said you would take me up to a high mountain and show me all the glory of the world.
Professor Rubek.
[With a slight start.] Did I promise you that, too?
Maia.
Me too? Who else, pray?
Professor Rubek.
[Indifferently.] No, no, I only meant did I promise to show you?
Maia.
—all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
Professor Rubek.
That is a sort of figure of speech that I was in the habit of using once upon a time.
Maia.
Only a figure of speech?
Professor Rubek.
Yes, a schoolboy phrase—the sort of thing I used to say when I wanted to lure the neigh-
