David. Saul, not this!
This should not fall to me, my lord; no more!
You cannot understand; it pains beyond
All duty and enduring!
Saul. Pains beyond...?
Who is he? know you of him? do you? know you?
You sup the confidence of Samuel?
I'll search from Nile to Nineveh——
David. My lord!
Saul. Mountain and desert, wilderness and sea,
Under and over, search—and find.
David. Peace, peace!
(Enter Michal joyously.)
Michal. O father, father! David! Listen!... Why
All here is dark and quivering as pain,
And a foreboding binds me ere I breathe!
David, you have not been as sun to him!
David. But Michal will be now.
Saul. Child, well, what then?
Michal. Father, a secret! Oh, and it will make
Dawn and delight in you!