Of priestly sanctity and of my father?
DAVID
Abiathar! You know obedience?
[Abiathar sullenly sheathes his weapon and binds Doeg. A dim panic is heard afar, and a lament without. David, who has sunk to a seat, springs anxiously up.]
Listen! that cry!
THE VOICE
Woe! woe!
DAVID
What is its wail?
THE VOICE