BAGOAS (making as if to give an order). To hear is to obey.
JUDITH. I will not eat of my lord's meat, nor drink of his wine, lest there be offence; I have brought provision by my waiting-woman.
BAGOAS. But if thy provision fail?
JUDITH (significantly). My provision will not fail before the Lord works by my hand the things which He has determined.
Bagoas claps his hands. Enter an attendant.
BAGOAS. Fetch Haggith, the waiting-woman of the lady Judith! Quickly! (Exit attendant. To Holofernes.) Prince, shall the Hebrew woman eat and drink of her provision in my lord's tent?
HOLOFERNES. She shall eat and drink in my tent, and she shall not leave it.
BAGOAS. Then it is right that my lord remains not. And moreover the Council humbly waits for my lord. (Exit Holofernes, L.)
BAGOAS (to Judith, as he follows Holofernes). Did I not say that you and I shall rule them that rule Assyria? (Exit L.)
Enter Haggith, back, with provisions.