MERAB
Nor have not, ah? how Michal
Is given to the embraces of another?
[David shrinks.]
You desperately breathe and pale at last?
[She laughs more bitterly.]
To me for aid, to me, you yet shall come.
[She goes. David slowly lifts his hand to his brow in heavy pain. Abiathar—and soon Abishai—abruptly descends from the cave to him.]
ABIATHAR
David——