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 Rebecca. Yes.

Kroll. Does he usually stay out long?

Rebecca.

Yes, he does. But one cannot count on him to-day. So if you don't care to meet him

Kroll.

No, no. It is you I want to speak to,—quite alone.

Rebecca.

Then we had better not lose time. Sit down, Rector.

[She sits in the easy-chair by the window. Rector Kroll sits on a chair beside her.

Kroll.

Miss West—you can scarcely imagine how deeply and painfully I have taken this to heart—this change in Johannes Rosmer.

Rebecca. We expected it would be so—at first.

Kroll. Only at first?

Rebecca.

Rosmer was confident that sooner or later you would join him.

Kroll. I?

Rebecca. You and all his other friends.