Will find his Caliphate inopportune.

RAFI
(Silencing the SINGERS with a wave of his hand;
to the GUESTS) Did not someone ask me why this house was called
the House of the Moving Walls?

CALIPH
I asked the question.

(Sheets of iron with a crash covering the apertures of the arches.
The four GUESTS are completely walled in.)

RAFI, BEGGARS AND WOMEN
(From behind the iron partitions with a shout) Answered!

JAFAR
This is a disastrous situation!

(The BEGGARS Tramp out to martial music.)

VOICES OF THE BEGGARS
(Retreating)

Today Haroun, the much-detested Caliph,
Will find Caliphate inopportune!

JAFAR
(Listening at the wall) They have all left the room.
At least we are alone. Let us shout, they may hear us from the street.