Sheba.

A beautiful opportunity to ask for that little present of money. Poor dear Papa!

Salome and Sheba.

Poor dear Papa!

[They link their hands together and walk as if going out through the Library.

The Dean.

[Looking up.] Don’t go, children!

[He rises, the girls rush to him, and laughing with joy they turn him like a top, dancing round him.

[Panting.] Stop, children!

Sheba.