PHARMAS (entering with HAMUTAL)
This way. Stand here until the Presence speaks to you. [_Exit._ 

JEZEBEL
They tell me that you lived in Sidon once.

HAMUTAL
Yes, lady, yes. I passed my childhood there.

JEZEBEL
So. In which street or quarter was your home?

HAMUTAL
The twisted stinking quarter of the poor, one where you never trod, near the fish-market.

JEZEBEL
I trod there often, and its filthiest lane, silvered with cat-gnawn droppings of the nets, was blessed to me. It is blest in memory.

HAMUTAL
Perhaps to others it is not so blest. I know my father starved there; so did I. That’s past. The question now is, Is the man gone from the door?

JEZEBEL
The man who brought you here? Look.

ROSE-FLOWER (looking)
He has gone.

JEZEBEL
Why should he not be gone?

HAMUTAL
They are all spies here, every man of them. And I have come here, Madam, to say this: You are in instant danger of your life.

JEZEBEL
From whom?

HAMUTAL
I cannot say. I will not say. I do not rightly know; but they are wicked--wicked and bold. Though others made them so. I have come here to help you to escape.

JEZEBEL

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