[_At door._] Hut!--Bah! [_Running forward and seizing_ ADENE'S _pulse_.] Gott im Himmel! take him in! Take him in! He lies down flat, straight, this moment, just as he is! [_To_ VERA.] No, not you! Here, Nurse! Take him in. [_Calling._ VERA. [_As_ RHEINHARDT _leads_ ADENE _off, after a moment of thought_.] Come back to me afterwards, Doctor. I want to speak to you. [_Exeunt_ RHEINHARDT _and_ ADENE _into the sick-room, the_ NURSE _appearing at_ ADENE'S _door_. _Enter_ PUNKAH BOY, _and sits in corner_ R., _working punkah_. _Enter_ SELIM _with a lamp_. VERA _makes room for it on the table among the curios, then begins to put the curios into their box_. [_Exit_ SELIM. _Re-enter_ RHEINHARDT. VERA. [_While_ RHEINHARDT _is still at the door_.] I have been so foolish! Have I done him any real harm? RHEINHARDT. Harm? No; it had to come, one way or another. So long as he sleeps!---- VERA. I have heard from my father. He is coming here. _Re-enter_ SELIM _with second lamp_. RHEINHARDT. Sir Carlyon coming here? When, does he say? [SELIM _notices and trembles_. VERA. [_Looking at letter._] As far as I can judge, he might come to-night. [SELIM, _listening acutely, trembles violently, clutches the poisoned knife which is still lying on the table, and glides off rapidly into the trees_.] That is, if he rides from Johilcund, as he says he will. RHEINHARDT. _Ride_ from Johilcund! Gott in Himmel! Let me look. [VERA _gives him the letter_.] From Bombay. [_Looking at the envelope._] Nineteenth, twentieth. Ah, yes. He ought to get here to-morrow midday. VERA. [_With constraint._] Has Mr. Adene said anything to you about him? RHEINHARDT. [_Same manner._] Yes. [_Their eyes meet and then avoid each other._] There is no need for them to meet. [_Slight pause._] And you--you have said all your say with Mr. Adene? VERA. Yes. RHEINHARDT. He is a good man. Yes, he is a brave fellow. That is settled. And old Rheinhardt will go back to Zuerich, Universitaetstrasse, hundert und zwoelf; and will grow fat; and will write fat, fat books! VERA. [_Tenderly, going up to him._] And save more people's lives, and make more pupils love him. RHEINHARDT. Ach! you say that? We have had a happy time here, we two; two good companions--_nicht so?_ And it is over. Bah!--it will be there to think about, in the nights, when it is warm and still like this--and I smoke! VERA. Isn't it wonderfully still? You can hear every sound. Hark! there is some one riding on the road. [_They listen together for a moment. Then_ RHEINHARDT _looks at her and says abruptly_: RHEINHARDT. Good-night! [_Exit_ RHEINHARDT, _up_. VERA. Good-night!