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——
JUDITH (simply). Perhaps you dismissed the people because it is not meet for them to see all the workings of the mind which has authority over them.