Michal. As if it were
Enchantment dead.... Ah then 'tis true—there is
Another—is another!

David. Now, what fever?
A gentleness clad once your every grace.

Michal. There is some other that you lure and love.

David. It is not Michal speaking; so I wait.

Michal. Then you will learn.... Who's that?

(Judith glides in.)

(To her.) Why are you here?

Judith (to David, with a laugh, as if with amorous joy).
Brave, it was brave, my love! beauteous! brave!

David. Woman?

Judith. The Philistine, a brazen tower,
A bastion of strength, fell to the earth!