HASSAN
Selim, what do you here?

SELIM
Plunge not the finger of enquiry into the pie of impertinence, O my uncle.

HASSAN
Since when have I become your uncle, Selim, and how did I cease
to be your friend?

SELIM
Since when did you aspire to poetry, O Hassan?
But I have heard these lines:

As from the eagle flies the dove
So friendship from the claw of love.

HASSAN
Love. What love do you mean, scum of the market?

SELIM
This. (Puts a hand on YASMIN's shoulder.)

HASSAN
May God strike thee blind, Selim, and shut the door
of his compassion against thee!

SELIM
What is my crime, Uncle? How have I sinned against thee,
or merited the solemn imprecation?