Rabble! Insects! Lice!

(_The street is cleared, not without difficulty, and_ Ozias _is left
alone with_ Haggith.)

_After a pause_, Judith _enters slowly, in widow's apparel and
sackcloth_.

(_Exit_ Haggith _into the house_.)

JUDITH. Greetings, Lord Ozias.

OZIAS. Lady, greetings. (_They salute_.)

JUDITH. Where are the people?

OZIAS. I invited them to go away.

JUDITH. Why?

OZIAS. Your waiting-woman said that you would speak with me.

JUDITH. But what I have to say I would have said before them.

OZIAS. Forgive your servant.

JUDITH. No! It is I, the woman, who should ask to be absolved.

OZIAS. I beseech you----