CECILIA (_looking long at him_)
I know enough. (_Pause_)
AMADEUS (_walking to and fro until he stops some distance away from her_) And what next?
CECILIA
What next...? Perhaps it"s just as well that our vacations are soon to begin. Then we may consider in peace, each one by himself, what is to come next.
AMADEUS
It seems almost as if both of us should have expected this very thing.
We have made no common plans for the summer, although we have always done so before.
CECILIA
The best thing for me is probably to go with the boy to some quiet place in the Tirol ... as you and Albert suggested.
AMADEUS
Yes.
CECILIA
And you...?
AMADEUS
I...? I shall make that walking tour with Albert. I want to be scrambling about in the mountains once more.
CECILIA
And finally descend into some beautiful valley--is that what you mean?
AMADEUS
That--might happen.
CECILIA (_dryly_)
But _first_--we should have to bid each other definite good-by, as there is no return from _that_ place.
AMADEUS
Of course, there isn"t! No more than from your place.
CECILIA
From mine...?
AMADEUS
Oh, it might happen that you felt inclined to ... change your plans ...
and instead of staying with Marie ... prefer the undisturbed ...
CECILIA
I won"t change my plans. And you had better not change yours.
AMADEUS
If that be your wish....
CECILIA
It is my wish. (_Pause_)
AMADEUS
Can it be possible that now, all at once, the moment should have come?
CECILIA
What moment?
AMADEUS
Well--the one we used to foresee in our happiest days even--the one we have expected as something almost inevitable.
CECILIA
Yes, it has come. We know now that everything is over.
AMADEUS
Over...?
CECILIA
That"s what we have been talking of all the time, I suppose.
AMADEUS
Yes, you are right. At bottom it is better that we put it into plain words at last. Our moods have been rather too precarious lately.
CECILIA
Everything will be improved now.